In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
From Renzo Piano
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
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.
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.
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