Renzo Piano Quotes

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
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.
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.
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.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
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Renzo Piano
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14 September, 1937
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