You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
From Renzo Piano
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.
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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