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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Renzo Piano

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures, culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

Renzo Piano

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano

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Born: September 14, 1937 (age 85)

Bio: Renzo Piano is an Italian architect and engineer who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.

Known for:

The Shard
Centre Georges Pompidou
Whitney Museum of American Art
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre
Auditorium Parco della Musica

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