Renzo Piano Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Renzo Piano:

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

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

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.

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

Renzo Piano

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

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

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

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

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Renzo Piano

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

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, poetry, music.

Renzo Piano

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

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 then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

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.

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 transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

Renzo Piano

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

Renzo Piano