“When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and y...” — Renzo Piano Quote

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

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.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.

I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right.

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.