Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.
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. - Renzo Piano
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.
- Renzo Piano
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building. - Renzo Piano
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture … - Renzo Piano
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture …
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… - Renzo Piano
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…
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things. - Renzo Piano
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. - Renzo Piano
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. - Renzo Piano
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. - Renzo Piano
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, i… - Renzo Piano
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, i…
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