About Renzo Piano

ABOUT RENZO PIANO

Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937, into a family of builders. In his home city he has strong roots, sentimental and cultural, with its historic center, the port, the sea, and with his father’s trade. During his time at university, the Milan Polytechnic, he worked in the studio of Franco Albini. He graduated in 1964 and then began to work with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters. Between 1965 and 1970 he traveled extensively in America and Britain. In 1971, he founded the studio Piano & Rogers with Richard Rogers, and together they won the competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the city where he now lives. From the early 70s until the 90s, he collaborated with the engineer Peter Rice, forming Atelier Piano & Rice, between 1977 and 1981. Finally, in 1981, he established Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with a hundred people working in Paris, Genoa, and New York.

A propos de l'architecte choisi par le Whitney pour la construction de leur nouveau building:

Renzo Piano est ne a Genes en 1937.

Il n'avait que 35 ans quand il est devenu connu car en 1971 c'est lui qui a ete choisi pour construire a Paris Beaubourg connu maintenant sous le nom du Centre Pompidou . En 1998 il a recu le Pritzker Prize, le prix le plus connu pour recompenser le travail d'architectes vivants. Il a aussi imagine la Cite Internationale de Lyon en 1986 et y a associe un nouvel amphitheatre inaugure en en 2006.