Renzo Piano
Renzo PianoThe Architect is what a person becomes the very moment they become dissatisfied with the house where they live.
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.
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.
The City is beautiful because it is created slowly, made by time as a tangle of monuments and infrastructures, culture and market, national history and everyday stories.
Obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing... its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
