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
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.
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.
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.
fighting bad-ass ideas
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
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.