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
center empty space
because the center of the composition is not a building, but an empty space.
art enjoying
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
art concert enjoy love music provide reason shelter space
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.
family romantic
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.
architecture
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
architect believes build concept design detail general somebody
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.
attitude believe firm good people quality somebody
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.
architect builder cares dreams
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
capacity children might 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.
childhood related remember single
I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
dreamt feet freedom house
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.
architecture builder came everybody family
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
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.