Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.
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.
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.
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…
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect - Renzo Piano
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect
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.
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