Quotes by Renzo Piano

"London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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