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Biography
of Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano was born on 14 September 1937 in Genoa. He comes from a family of master builders. He studied in Florence and Milan, where he graduated from the architecture faculty of the Polytechnic in 1964. After that, he worked first with his father and then under the direction of Franco Albini. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia and with Z. S. Makowsky in London. He got to know Jean Prouvé during that time and their friendship has strongly influenced his work.
From 1971 Renzo Piano worked with Richard Rogers (Piano & Rogers) and from 1977 with Peter Rice (Piano & Rice Workshop), who, until his death in 1992, was Piano’s close associate.
Today, under the name of the “Renzo Piano Building Workshop”, Renzo Piano has offices in Genoa, in Paris, where he lives, and in Berlin. Overall, he heads a group of around 100 architects, engineers and specialists.
In 1998 Renzo Piano was awarded the renowned Pritzker Prize for Architecture for his work.
Completed Projects
1973: Office building for B&B, Como, Italy
1974: One-family homes, Cusago (Milan), Italy
1977: Centre National d’Art et de Culture George Pompidou, Paris, France; IRCAM, Paris, France
1979: Renovation of the historic centre of Otranto, Italy (UNESCO project)
1980: Prototype of the VSS experimental car for Fiat, Turin, Italy
1982: Rigo district, Perugia, Italy; Alexander Calder retrospective, Turin, Italy
1984: Renovation of the Schlumberger factories, Paris, France; set for Luigi Nono’s opera “Il Prometeo”, Venice, Italy; office building for Olivetti, Naples, Italy
1985: Lowara office building, Vicenza, Italy
1986: Pavilion for the IBM travelling exhibition
1987: The Menil Collection Museum, Houston, USA
1990: Football stadium, Bari, Italy; Bercy 2 commercial centre, Paris, France; IRCAM extension, Paris, France
1991: “Crown Princess” and “Regal Princess” cruise ships, Monfalcone, Gorizia, Italy; Rue de Meaux Housing, Paris, France; Thomson Optronics factories, Guyancourt, France; Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Punta Nave, Genoa, Italy
1992: Headquarters of the Credito Industriale Sardo, Cagliari, Italy; Aquarium and Congress Hall, Genoa, Italy
1994: Lingotto Congress and Concert Hall, Turin, Italy; Kansai Airport, Osaka, Japan
1995: Cy Twombly Pavilion, Houston, USA
1996: Cité Internationale, Lyons, France; I Portici, shopping street in Lingotto, Turin, Italy; Ushibuka Bridge, Kumamoto, Japan
1997: Reconstruction of the Atelier Brancusi, Paris, France; Museum of Science and Technology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/ Basel, Switzerland; the Debis building, headquarters of Daimler Benz, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany; wind tunnel for Ferrari, Maranello, Modena, Italy
1998: Ferrari Wind tunnel, Maranello, Modena, Italy; Cultural Centre Jean Marie Tjibaou, Nouméa, New Caledonia; Mercedes Benz Design Centre, Sindelfingen (Stuttgart), Germany; Daimler Benz projects on the Potsdamer Platz; musical Theatre, Imax theatre, residentials, retails, Berlin, Germany; Lodi Bank Headquarters, Lodi, Italy
1999: Hotel and casino, Cité Internationale, Lyon, France; Completion open spaces, Old Harbour, Genoa, Italy
2000: Internal and external renovation of the Pompidou Centre, Paris, France; Office Tower on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany; KPN Telecom office tower, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; High-Rise block with offices and flats, Sydney, Australia; extension to the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
2001: Auditorium of the Banca Popolare di Lodi, Lodi, Italy; Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Japan; Niccolò Paganini auditorium, Parma, Italy
2002: Two auditoriums in the Parco della Musica (700 and 1200-seat halls, 2800-seat hall), Rome, Italy; Lingotto multiplex cinema, Turin, Italy; The Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Art Gallery at Lingotto, Turin, Italy
2003: The Nasher Scuplture Centre, Dallas, USA; Multiplex movie theatre of the Lingotto, Turin, Italy; Three Underground stations in Genoa, Italy
2004: San Pio Church, Foggia, Italy; Headquarters of the newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”, Milan, Italy New headquarters EMI Musique France, Paris, France
2005 : New headquarters EMI Musique France, Paris, France ; Paul Klee Museum, Bern, Switzerland ; Peek & Cloppenburg department store, Cologne, Germany ; High Museum of Art Expansion, Atlanta, USA
Projects in Progress
1995: Shopping centre, Nola, Naples, Italy
1999: Extension to the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; housing complex, Lisbon, Portugal; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2000: Extension to the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA; Congress Centre, Cité Internationale, Lyon, France; London Bridge Tower, London, UK; The New York Times building, New York, USA; extension to the Morgan Library, New York, USA
2001: Building containing offices and flats, Saint Giles Court, London, UK; La Rocca Winery, Grosseto, Italy
2002: Rehabilitation of the old Michelin factory area, Trento, Italy; Columbia University, Campus Plan, New York, USA
2003: Los Angeles County Museum, Lacma, Los Angeles, USA
2004: Whitney Museum expansion, New York, USA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum expansion, Boston, USA
2005: Rehablilitation of the old Falck areas, Sesto San Giovanni (MI), Italy; New London Bridge House, London, UK
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