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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...

Renzo Piano

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...

Tags: love, music, art

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.

Renzo Piano

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.

Tags: good, mother, believe

About Author
Renzo Piano (Italian: [ˈrɛntso ˈpjaːno]; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), İstanbul Modern in Istanbul (2022) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016). He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.
Piano has been a Senator for Life in the Italian Senate since 2013.

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.

Renzo Piano

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.

Tags: understand, theme, park

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.

Renzo Piano

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.

Tags: world, boat, magic

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.

Renzo Piano

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.

Tags: job, book, people

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

Renzo Piano

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

Tags: criticism, harmony, you

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Renzo Piano

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Tags: design, world, london

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Renzo Piano

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Tags: live, learn, you

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, po...

Renzo Piano

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, po...

Tags: love, life, music

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 transformin...

Renzo Piano

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 transformin...

Tags: art, giving, lunch

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

Renzo Piano

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

Tags: family, father, building

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 the...

Renzo Piano

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 the...

Tags: philosophy, start, building

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Renzo Piano

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Tags: silence, matter, personal

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

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.

Tags: family, children, happy