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Filipo Brunelleschi.
Born in 1377, Brunelleschi was an architect and engineer who is considered, without rival, to be the inaugurator of Renaissance architecture in Italy. Less interested in the revival of Greco-Roman style itself, Brunelleschi approached the ancient styles with an “acute sense of practical issues and of the mathematics of natural optics” (Campbell 42). In other words, for...
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“Art washes from our souls the dust that is everyday life.”
– -John Davies
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Paulo Mendes de Rocha, (born October 25, 1928) is a Brazilian architect. He was recently honored with the 2006 Pritzker Prize, commonly referred to as the Nobel prize for architecture. Working almost exclusively in Brazil, Mendes da Rocha has been producing buildings since 1957, many of them built in concrete, a method some call “Brazilian Brutalist” arguably allowing buildings to be...
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