In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. Renzo Piano Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. Renzo Piano Read Quote
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. Renzo Piano Read Quote
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 Read Quote