Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, … - Renzo Piano

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Renzo Piano

Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.

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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

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As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

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Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

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Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

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