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Paolo Piccinini

Architect
FIAM Italia
Pesaro, Italy

PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE – PEOPLE OF DESIGN VERSION!

What prescient youthful memory relates to your present career?

My AFS year as a foreign exchange student in High School in Los Angeles, California was a prescient youthful memory that certainly relates to my present career.

Los Angeles, Californie – Unsplash


What are three basic rules you learned from your mentors?

Determination, honesty… family!


Any music playing while you work?

Nope!


Do you work in PJs or three-piece suits?

PJs for sure!


What is your current design state of mind?

Modern contemporary


What living designer/architect do you most admire?

Renzo Piano

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Cirone-Musi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons


What past designer/architect inspires you the most?

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

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What peer quality do you most value?

Function and simplicity – research of new materials and technologies.


How are your country of belonging’s values reflected in your work?

What can I say more than … I live in Italy!

The Coliseum, Italy – Unsplash

Toscane, Italy – Unsplash


What always inspires you?

Nature.


What is your favorite place in the world?

Europe.

Amsterdam, Shutterstock

Switzerland, Shutterstock


If you could host any three guests, past or alive, over for dinner, who would you choose and what would you dare serving?

Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King and Queen Elizabeth.
Menu: Pasta (hold on the garlic, for the Queen!)

Hugo van Gelderen / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons


What is your mantra?

The power of reasoning…


What is your dream? THINK BIG!

That mankind no longer take things for granted – to make the world better for everybody not for just a few.


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