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Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano (born 14 September, 1937) is a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize. One admirer said the "serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world". His work also has its strong critics, to the point of infamously being called "a hodgepodge of tents, greenhouses and scaffolding." Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937 and maintains Read more [...]

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Giorgio Grassi

Giorgio Grassi (born October 27, 1935 in Milan, Italy), is one of Italy's most important architects. Much influenced by Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow and Adolf Loos, his extremely formal work is predicated on absolute simplicity, clarity, and honesty without ingratiation, rhetoric, or spectacular shape-making; it refers to historical archetypes of form and space and has a strong concern with the making of urban space. For these reasons Grassi is a non-conformist and a critic of conventional Read more [...]

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Giancarlo De Carlo

Giancarlo De Carlo (December 12, 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an Italian architect. He was born in Genoa, Liguria in 1919. He trained as an architect from 1942 to 1949, a time of political turmoil which generated his philosophy toward life and architecture. Libertarian socialism was the underlying force for all of his planning and design. De Carlo saw architecture as a consensus-based activity. His designs are generated as an expression of the forces that operate in a given context including human, Read more [...]

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