Today we celebrate the 90th anniversary of Paulo Mendes da Rocha. With a unique integrity in his thinking and design, his career has already been celebrated with the highest awards an architect can receive, from the Pritzker Prize in 2006 to the 2018 Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale and the Praemium Imperiale in 2016. Here, instead of presenting his impressive projects, we have asked architects to share some of their stories, talk about his practice and how his thinking has influenced them.
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Paulo is an extraordinary person. His work can't be dissociated from his position as intellectual in the world. Whoever has the privilege of knowing him experiences the erudition, the brilliant associations, his ability to think in depth. But also they end up knowing his astonishing coherence and generosity, without prejudices. He is always open to conversation and sees dialogue as a form of existence. His projects are much more than the drawing of constructed objects, of architectures: they are the formalization of a private view of the world, radically inclusive.
