Best quotes by Renzo Piano on Architecture

Checkout quotes by Renzo Piano on Architecture

  • 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.
    - Renzo Piano
  • In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
    - Renzo Piano
  • 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.
    - Renzo Piano
  • I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
    - Renzo Piano
  • You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
    - Renzo Piano
  • London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
    - Renzo Piano