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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vici, born 15 April 1452 and
passed away 2 May 1519. His areas of strength included painting, sculpting, architecture,
science, music, mathematics, engineering, invention, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany,
writing, history, and cartography. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all
time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived in the Western world.[1] He
is often referred to as the Father of paleontology, iconology and architecture. Sometimes he is
credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank. He is seen as the great
exemplar of the Renaissance man, an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly
inventive imagination. Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation regarding his life
and personality, his view of the world was logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical
methods he employed were unorthodox for his time. Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da
Vinci, and a peasant woman, Catherina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was
educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Verrocchio. Much of his earlier
working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome,
Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded him by Francis I.
Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the
most famous and most parodied portrai, and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious
painting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.
Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualized flying machines, a type
of armored fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull,
also outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were
constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as
an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the
world of manufacturing unheralded. He made substantial discoveries in anatomy, civil
engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no
direct influence on later science. Today, Leonardo is widely considered one of the central figures
in Western art, and one of the most diversely talented individuals in all of Western civilization. In
his architectural work Leonardo went so far as to present a plan for the "ideal city" to Ludovico il More.
This would have required the total rebuilding of Milan and, not surprisingly, nothing more ever came of
it. Little ever came of Leonardo's drawings and plans in the area of architecture. He may have worked
with Ambrogio da Cortis and Bramante, in 1492, on rebuilding the Vigevano marketplace and may also
have been involved in two or three other civil improvement projects. Other than this, we know he
submitted a model for the central tower of the Milan Cathedral. It was rejected on May 10th, 1490, and
though Leonardo was invited to resubmit something different, he never finished his second
model.Towards the end of his life Leonardo also worked on some sketches for the Queen Mother's castle
at Romorantin. Again, these were never carried out.
As for David Childs he was born April1,1941 in prineton, new jersey, He went to yale in 1963 and
graduated in 1967 with a graduate degree in architecture and art. He joined the Washington, D.C., office
of SOM in 1971, after working with Nathaniel Owings and Daniel Patrick Moynihan on plans for the
redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue. Childs was a design partner of the firm in Washington until 1984,
when he moved to SOM's New York Office. His major projects include: in Washington, D.C., 1201
Pennsylvania Avenue, the Four Seasons Hotel, master plans for the National Mall, the U.S. News and
World Report headquarters, and the headquarters for National Geographic; in New York City, Worldwide
Plaza, 450 Lexington Avenue, Bertelsmann Tower, and One World Trade Center; and internationally, the
Embassy of the United States, Ottawa, and the Changi international terminal in Singapore. Childs served
as the chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission from 1975 to 1981 and he was appointed to
the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in 2002, serving as chairman from 2003 to 2005. He was the recipient
of a Rome Prize in 2004; named a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council in 2010; and has served on
the boards of the Municipal Art Society, the Museum of Modern Art, and the American Academy in
Rome. He had first majored in zoology, why zoology he says I came from a family of scientists,
medical mostly. Ive always loved the sciences and I went away to an all-boys school in New
England for high school. In this school you were suspect if you were interested in the arts, if you
know what I mean. I say that with a smile, so be careful how you say that.

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