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Francesco Borromini

1599–1667 · Italian architect · Italy

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Bio

Expanded Baroque architecture through complex geometry, movement and unconventional spatial forms.

Key works

  • San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

THE RETHINK

Francesco Borromini helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Francesco Borromini changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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