Quotes by Renzo Piano - Page 1

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
Renzo Piano / Architect
Architect
Museums
Should
Head
Lose
Place
Museum
Where
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When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect
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Men
Architect
House
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A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.
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Doe
Draws
Littles
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A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
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Builder
Draw
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Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
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Abstraction
Contemplation
Silence
Enjoying
Personal
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As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
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Architect
Arrogant
Sure
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I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
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Childhood
Remember
Way
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I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
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Childhood
Related
Single Thing
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Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
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Bad Ass
Badass
Fighting
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In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
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Architecture
Should
Years
First
Learn
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
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Architecture
Bad Ass
Badass
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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
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Architecture
Criticism
Harmony
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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
Renzo Piano / Architect
Architecture
Architect
Criticism
Exposed
Harmony
Rely
Accept
Full
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The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
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Architect
Builder
Desire
Between
Cares
Difference
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My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
Renzo Piano / Architect
Inspiration
Land
Painting
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Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.
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Great American
Needs
Itself
Loft
Spaces
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London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
Renzo Piano / Architect
Architecture
Design
Civilised
London
Urban
World
Places
Procedure
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I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
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Architecture
Builder
Came
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When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.
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Feet
Student
Dreamt
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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Block
Book
Opposites
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Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
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Dream
Architect
Wells
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Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
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Dream
Explorers
Build
Adventurers
Architects
Well
Responsibly
Search
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I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
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Important Things
Buildings
The Most Important
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Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.
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Art
Architecture
Feds
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Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.
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Quality
Giving
Light
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Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.
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Art
Design
People
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I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
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Capacity
Opposites
Stubbornness
Teach
Young Children
Look People Children
Look Children People
Qualities
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Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
Renzo Piano / Architect
Islands
Sailing
Years
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Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
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Boat
Leisure
Magic
Sailing
Month
Island
Spend
Separate
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Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
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Architecture
Book
Dangerous
Hundred
Ugliness
Years
Job
Very
Writer
Make
Bad
Read
Eh
Hundred Years
Impose
Place
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A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
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Space
Empty
Empty Space
Function
Parks
Theme
Understand
Version
Commercial
Europeans
Park
Plaza
Theme Park
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Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.
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Goal
Hands
Knowing
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If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
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Discipline
Piano
Trouble
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When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.
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Cities
Feet
Tree
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In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
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Quality
Attitude
Firm
Mother
Attitude Good Believe
Fundamentally
Listener
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In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.
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Art
Architecture
Cities
Grabbing
Grew
Past
Stealing
Writing
Life Love Art
Entire
Entire Life
Spend
Italy
Taking
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The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.
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Angry
Architect
Builder
Something Else
Surprised
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When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
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Design
Architect
Philosophy
Theoretical
Build
General
Believes
Concept
Detail
Sometime
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There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
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Art
Italian
Lunch
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As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.
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Artist
Needs
Visionaries
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I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.
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Design
Not Fair
Preparation
Client
Different Story
Fair
Label
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There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
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Architecture
Energy
Giving
Italian
Lunch
Negative
Obsession
Profession
Transforming
Necessarily
Putting
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As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.
Renzo Piano / Architect
Space
Architect
Enjoy
Shelter
Love Art Music
Love Art Space
Concert
Concert Hall
Hall
Provide
Same Thing
To Love
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Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.
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Beautiful
Cities
Years
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.
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Art
Technology
Mean
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