The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
Renzo PianoRead
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Architectural knowledge is gained over a lifetime, requiring both time and experience.
Renzo Piano suggests that true mastery in architecture requires a long-term commitment to learning and growth. He emphasizes that the first half of a person's career is primarily a learning phase, and only after accumulating enough knowledge and experience can one truly excel in the field, taking into account the impact of architecture on future generations.
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ArchitectureLearningExperienceMasteryKnowledge
In practice
Example use cases
During a lecture on architectural design, one might say, 'As Renzo Piano wisely stated, in architecture you should live for 150 years.'
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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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There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
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I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
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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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