Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano, OMRI, OMCAis 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."...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth14 September 1937
CityGenoa, Italy
CountryItaly
family romantic
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
design fair tells
I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.
art concert enjoy love music provide reason shelter space
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.
art enjoying
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
central devoted hill musician north painter paul poet researcher south
The north hill is devoted to Paul Klee the musician and teacher, the central hill to the painter and poet and the south hill to the researcher and mathematician.
center empty space
because the center of the composition is not a building, but an empty space.
head hope lose
A museum, ... is a place where one should lose one's head -- and I hope you will lose it.
design world london
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
childhood way remember
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
inspiration land painting
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
littles doe draws
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.
years islands sailing
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
space parks empty
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
museums should loses
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.