Basic Design Truth #4
When looking at design, one of the many pieces of advice given to me was through the quote: “An idea is salvation by imagination.” from Frank Lloyd Wright. #truth I have spent a lot of time in design over the years, and I’m sharing a few of my favourite Architects this month. Another favourite is Renzo Piano. Piano is Italian architect best known for his high-tech public spaces. He has won many awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and AIA Gold Medal Awards. Renzo Piano was born in 1937 to a family of builders and has always seen himself as an architect with a builder's roots. In his earlier years he was deeply involved in the mechanics of buildings and, from an early age, learned to think about the use of space. Piano traveled to the United States to work in the Philadelphia office of Louis I. Kahn. He moved on to London to work with Zygmunt Stanisław Makowski, a Polish [...]