The Architecture School Survival Guide

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 c...

"A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being." Juhani Pallasmaa Finnish architect, educator, and critic Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect SAFA, Hon. FAIA, Int FRIBA, is a leading international figure in contemporary architecture, design, and art culture. Since 2008, he has served on the jury for the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. From 1991-98, Pallasmaa was dean and professor of architecture at the School of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology. Previously, he served as rector of the Helsinki University of Applied Arts and professor of architecture at the Haile Selassie I University in Ethiopia. He has held visiting chairs of architecture at institutions in the Americas and Europe, including the University of Virginia, Catholic University of America, and Yale University. From 2001-03, Pallasmaa was the Raymond E. Maritz Visiting Professor of Archit...