Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. Renzo Piano More Quotes by Renzo Piano More Quotes From 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. Renzo Piano empty parks space 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 sailing islands years London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. Renzo Piano design london world Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. Renzo Piano personal silence matter art 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 job you architecture people 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 you music love art In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. Renzo Piano live you architecture years 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. Renzo Piano freedom feet dream house 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. Renzo Piano think you preparation people 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. Renzo Piano look think children people I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. Renzo Piano building family architecture father 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. Renzo Piano down start you design Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. Renzo Piano something great like art As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. Renzo Piano cannot say you arrogant 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 family happy romantic children 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. Renzo Piano day thought angry father 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 good you mother attitude The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. Renzo Piano about difference dreams desire
