Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano, OMRI, OMCAis an Italian architect and engineer, who won the Pritzker Prize in 1998. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world."...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth14 September 1937
CityGenoa, Italy
CountryItaly
bad-ass architecture starting
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
light giving quality
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.
fighting bad-ass ideas
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
block book opposites
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.
dream architect wells
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
piano discipline trouble
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.
criticism architecture harmony
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
cities feet tree
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.
years islands sailing
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.
museums should loses
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
space parks empty
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.
childhood way remember
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
design world london
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
inspiration land painting
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.