Renzo Piano Quotes

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

I like building.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.

I'm a builder, first and foremost.

I went back to college for construction and design.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

Since I was a kid, I liked construction.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.