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Quote of the Day: 12 October 2017

Good morning Architects!
Anyone out there? It would sure be NICE to hear from you!
Renzo Piano

"Listening is probably one of the most important things to learn, not the easiest to learn. Listen doesn't mean that you listen then become obedient - you don't do what people tell you to do.
You listen to understand."
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano, the 1998 Pritzker Prize winner, is perhaps best known for his controversial design of the Centre Georges Pompidou, located in the heart of Paris and completed in 1978. Conceived in collaboration with English architect, Richard Rogers and described by Piano as “a joyful urban machine ... a creature that might have come from a Jules Verne book,” Beaubourg, as it is called, has become a cultural icon, expressive of Piano’s love of technology.
  

Born in Genoa in 1937, Piano comes from a family of builders. Following his graduation from Milan Polytechnic Architecture School in 1964, he worked in his father’s construction company and later was associated with the offices of Louis Kahn in Philadelphia and Z.S. Mackowsky in London. He formed Renzo Piano Building Workshop in 1980, which now has offices in Paris, Genoa and Berlin.


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