Opinion 

Il miglior fabbro

The Story of a Box

Opinion 

Il miglior fabbro

The Story of a Box

Luis Fernández-Galiano 
01/03/2025


Do you know who wrote this? On 7 August 2021, Renzo Piano sends me a picture of the laconic interior of his refuge in the Alps, another of the bucolic view from his window, and a third of a yellowish press cutting with lots of underlines. Can it be a text by you? It is. It appeared in El País on 14 June 2003 under the title ‘Feria de vanidades,’ and I send him the full article along with views from our house in Zahara de los Atunes, on the Atlantic shore. I am glad to know it was you, it is very interesting, and helps all of us remember what truly matters and what does not matter at all! We have to talk, I miss you in these troublesome times. Renzo calls shortly afterwards and explains that his preoccupation with what matters and what does not comes from his experience of the pandemic and from the challenge of designing six new hospitals at the same time: three in Greece financed by the Niarchos Foundation, two in Italy, and the largest one in France, in the north of Paris. He recently finished a children’s hospital in Uganda, which we intend to publish next month in Arquitectura Viva, but is now totally focused on the six European projects...[+]


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