{"id":1275,"date":"2007-01-04T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/steal-a-little-and-they-throw-you-in-jail-steal-a-lot-and-they-make-you-king\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T16:18:33","slug":"steal-a-little-and-they-throw-you-in-jail-steal-a-lot-and-they-make-you-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/steal-a-little-and-they-throw-you-in-jail-steal-a-lot-and-they-make-you-king","title":{"rendered":"Steal a little and they throw you in jail \/ Steal a lot and they make you king"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat interview with architect Renzo Piano<\/a>, who over the years has inherited a bunch of projects from other architects (for a variety of reasons).<\/p>\n

When you visit buildings by other architects, what do you look for?<\/em><\/p>\n

Haha! First, I enjoy them very much. Second, I steal everything. Stealing is maybe too hard a word. There\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s an Italian word, you say \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201crubarro,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d which means a nice robber, without a mask.<\/p>\n

What did T.S. Eliot say, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cGood poets borrow, great poets steal\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d?<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s really about that. But art is about that. Music is about taking and giving back. In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything — from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up — grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. And you know what, I put all my robberies in a little piece of paper that I have with me and fill almost a whole sketch pad. Even when I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t like a building, I still find something to take. This is probably because I was never a good school boy, so I grew up with the idea that I was not the first in class and I was a problem all the time. When you grow up with that idea, you spend your life taking from others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat interview with architect Renzo Piano, who over the years has inherited a bunch of projects from other architects (for a variety of reasons). When you visit buildings by other architects, what do you look for? Haha! First, I enjoy them very much. Second, I steal everything. Stealing is maybe too hard a … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Steal a little and they throw you in jail \/ Steal a lot and they make you king”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-kz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1212,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/underworld-evolution","url_meta":{"origin":1275,"position":0},"title":"Underworld evolution","author":"Gil","date":"November 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're like me (fate worse than etc.), you revel in the amazing subway stations in foreign countries. 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