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Biography of Renzo PianoName: Renzo PianoBirth Date: 1937 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Genoa, Italy Nationality: Italian Gender: Male Occupations: architect Renzo Piano The Italian lecturer and designer Renzo Piano (born 1937) is best known for his work with Richard Rogers on the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1971-1977). He gained an international reputation from projects executed in Italy, France, England, the United States, Germany, Senegal, and Japan.Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, on September 14, 1937. He entered the Polytechnic of Milan in 1959 to study architecture and from 1962 to 1964 worked under the guidance of Franco Albini. In 1964 he received his diploma and subsequently worked with his father, a building contractor, in Genoa. It was on building sites that the young architect acquired the rudiments of his experimental and craftsmanlike philosophy. Between the years 1965 and 1970 Piano worked with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia and with Z.S. Makowsky in London studying stressed-skin space grids and three-dimensional structures in tension.Two of his earliest architectural products were a woodworking shop and a factory for sulphur extraction. The woodworking …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…he insisted didn't fit him, "it implies that you aren't thinking in a poetic way" and that is contrary to his nature. Piano claimed to be a humanist techie-while embracing the spirit of modernism, he held dear the spirit of his Renaissance forebears. Technology, for Piano, is a means as well as an end, but never something visually specific, technology is not alien to nature but part of nature. Further Reading Articles on Piano may be found in many international architectural magazines, such as Domus, Casabella, and the Architectural Review. Piano is listed in Contemporary Architects, edited by Muriel Emanuel (1980), and the exhibition catalogue Renzo Piano/Pezzo per Pezzo, edited by Gianpiero Donin (1982), contains an English translation of the Italian text. The most comprehensive and richly illustrated study of Piano and his projects and his buildings is Massimo Dini's Renzo Piano (1984). Piano, Rogers, and others authored The Building of Beaubourg (1978). |