“I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder,...” — Renzo Piano Quote

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

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

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.

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a lot of architecture in our songs.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.