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Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano – Leading Italian architect and designer concerned with technological innovations and environmentally balanced buildings. From 1959 to 1964 Piano studied at the Milan Politecnico, where he subsequently taught until 1968. In 1970 he set up in partnership with the English architect Richard Rogers and undertook a number of commissions in Italy and England, including the PATScentre in Cambridge in 1975.
The practice’s most important work, however, was its winning entry for the Place Beaubourg competition for a national arts centre in the middle of Paris, organized by the French government in 1973 (the Pompidou Centre). The imposing six-storey design takes the metaphor of “cultural machine” to its technological extreme by placing the structural skeleton and colour-coded servicing elements on the outside of the building.
Piano’s use of technological function as a point of departure characterizes the work of what has become known as the “High-Tech” group of famous architects. This movement includes English designers such as Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw and Michael Hopkins. However, Piano’s desire to achieve a particular aesthetic quality is tempered by a concern for accommodating the user’s needs.
Pablo Picasso
(Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Málaga, 1881 – Moulins, Francia, 1973) Artista español. Hijo del también artista José Ruiz Blasco, en 1895 se trasladó con su familia a Barcelona, donde el joven pintor se rodeó de un grupo de artistas y literatos, entre los que cabe citar a los pintores Ramón Casas y Santiago Rusiñol, con quienes acostumbraba reunirse en el bar Els Quatre Gats.
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí (b.1904) was a prominent Spanish Catalan painter and a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.