Renzo Piano

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Renzo Piano
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Name	Renzo Piano
Nationality	Italian
Birth date	September 14, 1937 (1937-09-14) (age 70)
Birth place	Genoa
Work
Significant buildings	Centre Georges Pompidou Parco della Musica Shard London Bridge
Awards and prizes	Pritzker Architecture Prize American Institute of Architects Gold Medal

Detail of the Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.

City Tech Tower a proposed skyscraper to be built by Renzo Piano in Brooklyn, New York City.

Renzo Piano (born September 14, 1937) is a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and AIA Gold Medal.

[edit] Biography

Piano was born in Genoa, where he still maintains a home and office (Building Workshop). He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn and with Makowsky. He worked together with Richard Rogers from 1971 to 1977; their most famous joint project is the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1977). He also had a long collaboration with the extraordinary engineer Peter Rice.

On March 18, 2008, he became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [1].

[edit] Select projects

Rocca di Frassinello Winery, Gavorrano, Italy (2002-2007)
Renzo Piano Tower I & II, San Francisco (2006-)
Trans National Place, Boston (2006-)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (2005-)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2005-)
Sesto San Giovanni Masterplan, Milan (2004-)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2003-)
California Academy of Sciences rebuilding, San Francisco, California (to open 2008)
New York Times Building on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City (2008)
Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, expansion project (to open 2009)
Nichols Bridgeway, Chicago, Illinois (to open 2009)
Zentrum Paul Klee (2006) in Bern, Switzerland
Morgan Library Expansion (2003-2006) New York City
High Museum of Art Expansion (2005) Atlanta, Georgia
Parco della Musica auditorium, Rome, Italy (2002)
Beyeler Foundation Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA (opened 2003)
Aurora Place (1996-2000), Sydney, Australia
Cité Internationale (1995-2006), Lyon, France
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center (1991-98), Noumea, New Caledonia
Kansai International Airport (1987-1990), Osaka (Japan)
Menil Collection, Houston, USA (opened 1987)
IBM Travelling Pavilion
IRCAM & the Centre Georges Pompidou (1972-1977), Paris, France
NEMO science museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1997)