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Without a doubt, I can safely say that writing this book would have been an impossible task without the help of a multitude of people, in some cases premeditated and constant in their role as accomplices, in other cases the help offered unconsciously or altruistically.
First among all those who have helped and guided me is Douglas Morgenstern, who embodies an amazing combination of wisdom and modesty, utopian idealism, and love of the truth, while always keeping his feet firmly on the ground. A few hours after meeting me, Douglas took me to a meeting that changed my life. The meeting was with William J. Mitchell, at that time dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, in his office in Lobby 7, under the grand dome of the Rogers Building. That encounter opened a marvelous door into MIT. Since then, everything has changed in my life, and this book is just one of the consequences. For that reason, my most sincere thanks go to Douglas, who, besides providing that opening, collaborated with me on an extraordinary and exciting initiative that we founded together, the MITUPV Exchange, a language and cultural exchange program that ran for the next twelve years at MIT.
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