Quotes by : Renzo Piano

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and....

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where....

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if....

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate....

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from....

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza the plaza is the commercial version.....

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder....

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.....