Renzo Piano Quotes

Renzo Piano — Italian Architect born on September 14, 1937,

Renzo Piano OMRI OMCA is an Italian architect and engineer, who won the Pritzker Prize in 1998. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world.".. (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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