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Renzo Piano (born 14 September, 1937) is a world renowned Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal
AIA Gold Medal

The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."...
, Kyoto Prize
Kyoto Prize

The Kyoto Prize has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize, as it recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology....
 and the Sonning Prize
Sonning Prize

The Sonning Prize is awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to European culture. A committee headed by the rector of the University of Copenhagen decides among candidates proposed by European universities....
. His work also has its strong critics, to the point of infamously being called "a hodgepodge of tents, greenhouses and scaffolding".

o was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937 and maintains a home and office (Building Workshop) in the area.






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Renzo Piano (born 14 September, 1937) is a world renowned Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal
AIA Gold Medal

The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."...
, Kyoto Prize
Kyoto Prize

The Kyoto Prize has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize, as it recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology....
 and the Sonning Prize
Sonning Prize

The Sonning Prize is awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to European culture. A committee headed by the rector of the University of Copenhagen decides among candidates proposed by European universities....
. His work also has its strong critics, to the point of infamously being called "a hodgepodge of tents, greenhouses and scaffolding".

Biography

Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937 and maintains a home and office (Building Workshop) in the area. He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. He graduated from the University in 1964 and began working with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn

Louis Isadore Kahn was a world-renowned architect of Estonian origin based in Philadelphia, United States. After working in various capacities for several companies in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935....
 and with Makowsky. He worked together with Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, is a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism designs....
 from 1971 to 1978; their most famous joint project is the Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Le Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture....
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 (1977). He also had a long collaboration with the extraordinary engineer Peter Rice
Peter Rice

Peter Rice was an Ireland structural engineer....
.

In 1981, Piano founded the "Renzo Piano Building Workshop", employing a hundred people with offices in Paris, Genoa, and New York.

On 18 March, 2008, he became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo
Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the Capital and largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 304,065 people in the four municipalities that make up the city proper, and an estimated urban area population of 419,030 people in the Sarajevo Canton ....
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
 .

Select projects

  • Niarchos cultural Park, Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
     (2009)
  • National Library of Greece
    National Library of Greece

    The National Library of Greece is situated near the center of city of Athens. It was designed by the Danish architect Theophil Freiherr von Hansen, as part of his famous Trilogy of neo-classical buildings including the Academy of Athens and the original building of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens....
    , Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
     (2009)
  • National Opera of Greece, Athens
    Athens

    Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
     (2009)
  • Shard London Bridge
    Shard London Bridge

    Shard London Bridge, also known as London Bridge Tower, the Shard of Glass, 32 London Bridge and Shard Tower is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     (2007)
  • Swatch 'Jelly Piano' wristwatch, 1999 Summer Collection model. "My most proud work" (Piano, 2001)
  • Rocca di Frassinello Winery, Gavorrano
    Gavorrano

    Gavorrano is a comune in the Province of Grosseto in the Italy region Tuscany, located about 100 km southwest of Florence and about 25 km northwest of Grosseto....
    , Italy (2002-2007)
  • Stadio San Nicola
    Stadio San Nicola

    Stadio San Nicola is a multi-use all-seater stadium designed by Renzo Piano in Bari, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of AS Bari....
    , Bari
    Bari

    Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic sea, in Italy. It is the second economic centre of mainland Southern Italy and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas....
    , Italy (1988-1989)
  • Renzo Piano Tower I & II
    San Francisco Transbay development

    The San Francisco Transbay development plan consists of three supertall skyscrapers and ten other skyscrapers and highrises proposed in San Francisco, California....
    , San Francisco
    San Francisco, California

    The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
    , California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
     (2006-)
  • Trans National Place
    Trans National Place

    Trans National Place, also known as 115 Winthrop Square, is a supertall skyscraper proposed for construction in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
    , Boston
    Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
    , Massachusetts
    Massachusetts

    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
     (2006-)
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
    Whitney Museum of American Art

    The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", harbors one of the most important Collection of 20th century United States art....
    , New York City, New York
    New York

    The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
     (2005-)
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and near the Back Bay Fens....
    , Boston, Massachusetts (2005-)
  • Sesto San Giovanni
    Sesto San Giovanni

    Sesto San Giovanni is a city in the Milan metropolitan area, located in the province of Milan, Italy. It is home to the northernmost stop of the Milan Transportation System M1 line....
     Masterplan, Milan (2004-)
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art

    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles County, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
     (2003-)
  • The New York Times Building, New York City (2003-2007)
  • California Academy of Sciences
    California Academy of Sciences

    The California Academy of Sciences is one of the ten largest museums of natural history in the World . Remodeled in 2008, it is also one of the newest in the United States....
     rebuilding, San Francisco, California (2008)
  • New York Times Building
    New York Times Building

    The New York Times Building is a skyscraper on the west side of Midtown Manhattan that was completed in 2007. Its chief tenant is The New York Times Company, publisher of the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune, as well as other regional papers....
     on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City (2008)
  • Modern Wing
    Art Institute of Chicago Building

    The Art Institute of Chicago Building houses the Art Institute of Chicago, and is located in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Chicago Loop Community areas of Chicago of Chicago, Illinois....
     of the Art Institute of Chicago
    Art Institute of Chicago

    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premiere fine arts colleges, located in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, The Art Institute of Chicago, but is not related to, nor should be confused with, the chain of schools known as The Art Institutes....
    , expansion project (to open 2009)
  • Nichols Bridgeway
    Nichols Bridgeway

    The Nichols Bridgeway is a pedestrian bridge located in Chicago, Illinois. The bridge begins at the Great Lawn of Millennium Park, crosses over Monroe Street and connects to the third floor of the West Pavilion of the Art Institute of Chicago Building#Modern Wing, the Art Institute of Chicago's newest wing....
    , Chicago, Illinois
    Illinois

    The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
     (to open 2009)
  • Zentrum Paul Klee
    Zentrum Paul Klee

    The Zentrum Paul Klee is a museum dedicated to the artist Paul Klee, located in Bern, Switzerland. It features about 40 percent of Paul Klee?s entire pictorial oeuvre....
     (2006) in Bern, Switzerland
  • Morgan Library
    Morgan Library

    The Morgan Library & Museum is a museum and research library in New York City. It was founded to house the private library of J. P. Morgan in 1906, which included, besides the manuscripts and printed books, some of them in rare bindings, his collection of prints and drawings....
     Expansion (2003-2006) New York City, New York
  • High Museum of Art
    High Museum of Art

    The High Museum of Art is a leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia on Peachtree Street Northeast, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center, which also includes the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Young Audiences and the 14th Street Playhouse....
     Expansion (2005) Atlanta
    Atlanta, Georgia

    Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
    , Georgia
    Georgia (U.S. state)

    Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
  • Parco della Musica
    Parco della Musica

    The Auditorium Parco dlla Musica is a large multi-functional public music complex to the north of Rome ? in the area where the 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held....
     auditorium, Rome, Italy (2002)
  • Beyeler Foundation Museum, Basel, Switzerland
  • Nasher Sculpture Center
    Nasher Sculpture Center

    The Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum in Dallas, Texas specializing in modern and contemporary sculpture. It is located on a site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the heart of the Arts District, Dallas, Texas....
    , Dallas
    Dallas, Texas

    Dallas is the third largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population in the United States.The city, with a population of over 1.3 million, is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex which contains 6.1 million people, and is the fourth-largest United States metropolitan area...
    ,Texas
    Texas

    Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
     USA (opened 2003)
  • Aurora Place
    Aurora Place

    Aurora Place is the common name of Renzo Piano's award winning office tower and residential block on Sydney Macquarie Street. Its official name is the ABN AMRO building, after its principal tennant....
     (1996-2000), Sydney, Australia
  • Cité Internationale (1995-2006), Lyon, France
  • Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center
    Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center

    The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano with the concept of celebrating the vernacular Kanak culture of New Caledonia....
     (1991-98), Nouméa, New Caledonia
  • Kansai International Airport
    Kansai International Airport

    is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, off the shore of the cities of Sennan, Osaka and Izumisano, Osaka and the town of Tajiri, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture, Japan....
     (1987-1990), Osaka (Japan)
  • Menil Collection
    Menil Collection

    The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, Texas, United States, is a museum that houses the private art collection of founders Jean and Dominique de M?nil....
    , Houston
    Houston, Texas

    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
    , Texas USA (opened 1987)
  • IBM Travelling Pavilion
  • IRCAM
    IRCAM

    IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde Electroacoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris....
     & the Centre Georges Pompidou
    Centre Georges Pompidou

    Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Le Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture....
     (1972-1977), Paris, France
  • NEMO
    NEMO (museum)

    NEMO is the largest science center in the Netherlands. It is located in Amsterdam. The architecture is by Renzo Piano. NEMO is located right next to the Amsterdam central station and the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum....
     science museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1997)


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