Renzo Piano Professions : Architect Born : September 14, 1937 Browse All Authors Top 39 quotes by Renzo Piano One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. Renzo Piano bad-ass badass architecture 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. Renzo Piano technology mean art 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. Renzo Piano block opposites book 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. Renzo Piano visionaries artist needs 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. Renzo Piano quality light giving Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. Renzo Piano bad-ass badass fighting 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. Renzo Piano piano discipline trouble Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. Renzo Piano architect wells dream 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. Renzo Piano cities beautiful years When a man is not satisfied with a house where he Renzo Piano architect house men Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things. Renzo Piano feds architecture art You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony Renzo Piano harmony architecture criticism 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. Renzo Piano writing past art A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. Renzo Piano architect should museums 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. Renzo Piano lunch italian art 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. Renzo Piano design people art A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things. Renzo Piano draws doe littles 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. Renzo Piano knowing goal hands 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. Renzo Piano cities feet tree My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings. Renzo Piano painting land inspiration Similar Authors Ben van Berkel architect Bruno Zevi architect Bruno Freschi architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin architect Arthur Erickson architect Arne Jacobsen architect All Authors
