Italian - Architect | September 14, 1937 -
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.
Renzo Piano
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A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
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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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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
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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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In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 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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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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The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
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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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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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A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
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