The Man Who Thought with His Hands

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“Talking about architecture bores me; I prefer making it instead.”

The quotation alone sums up who Fabrizio Carola was. As it suggests, any further description of his architecture would simply be redundant.

After all, it would be simplistic today, almost a month after his death, to see Fabrizio’s story as that of a “simple” architect.