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Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2022), Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016) and The New York Times Building in New York City (2007…
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politics · Italian architect (born 1937) · architect · politician · also Renzo Piano, R. Piano, Piano
Born 14 September 1937 · Q190148
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Our building echoes the Kahn building through its height, its scale and its general plan, but our building has a character that is more transparent and more open. Light, discreet (half of the surfaces are underground), it nonetheless has its own character and creates a dialogue between the old and the new.
One of the reason we find them so beautiful and interesting is that they are full of surprises; even the idea of color represents a joyful surprise.
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“Our building echoes the Kahn building through its height, its scale and its general plan, but our building has a character that is more transparent and more open. Light, discreet (half of the surfaces are underground), it nonetheless has its own character and creates a dialogue between the old and the new.”
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“One of the reason we find them so beautiful and interesting is that they are full of surprises; even the idea of color represents a joyful surprise.”
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“Paradoxically, the Menil Collection, with its serenity, its calm, its discretion, is much more modern, scientifically speaking, than the Beaubourg.”
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Piano said he avoided giving Parisian taxi drivers his name for years after the Centre Pompidou opened, since its design was not uniformly popular
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Picardie Jules Verne (2022).
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After conversion from the Art Deco landmark May Company Department Store (1939)
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Awarded Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent (2017).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (2017).
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It had 150 collaborators in offices in Paris, Genoa, and New York
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Columbia University (2014).
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Career landmark: Italian senator for life (2013).
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An honour limited to five office holders in the sole gift of the Italian President, Renzo Piano set up a team of young architects called G124 whose mission is to work on the transformation of Italy's major cities' suburb
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Won AIA Gold Medal (2008).
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Piano rebuilt an existing structure to house the Harvard Art Museums, a consolidation of collections of the three art museums associated with Harvard University
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Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Became head of the Renzo Piano Foundation, dedicated to the promotion of the architectural profession
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Won Golden Lion (2000).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2000).
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The City of Chicago launched a major program of cultural buildings in Millennium Park with a new concert hall by Frank Gehry and a new wing of the beaux-arts building Art Institute of Chicago
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Awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize (1998).
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Piano won the Pritzker Prize, often considered the Nobel Prize of architecture
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1995).
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Awarded Berliner Kunstpreis (1995).
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Awarded Erasmus Prize (1995).
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Won Gold Medal of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art (1994).
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Awarded Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent (1991).
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Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (1990).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1990).
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And the Regal Princess followed a year later in 1991
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Piano was selected to design the new buildings on five of the fifteen sites of the project, with the requirement that the buildings have roofs of copper, and facades of clear glass and materials of a baked earth color
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Won Royal Gold Medal (1989).
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After their old museum buildings were damaged by an earthquake, the trustees of the California Academy of Sciences decided to rebuild their entire complex of twelve buildings, including an aquarium, planetarium, and a mu
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Piano and Rice won an international competition for a new airport to be constructed on an artificial island in the port of Osaka, Japan
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Awarded Auguste Perret Prize (1978).
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Piano ended his collaboration with Rogers and began working with engineer Peter Rice, who had contributed to the design of the Pompidou Centre
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The two men decided to open their own firm, Piano and Rogers, where they worked together from 1971 to 1977
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The thirty-four-year-old Renzo Piano and thirty-eight-year-old Richard Rogers, in collaboration with the Italian architect Gianfranco Franchini, competed with major architectural firms in the United States and Europe
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Received his first international commission, for the Pavilion of Italian Industry for Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan
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With a roof of steel and reinforced polyester, and created a continuous membrane for the covering of a pavilion at the Milan Triennale in the same year
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To a new location at the corner of Gansevoort and Washington in Manhattan, a neighborhood once occupied by meat packing houses, next to the High Line, a riverside highway and park
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Studied at Polytechnic University of Milan (1964).
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With a dissertation about modular coordination (coordinazione modulare) supervised by Giuseppe Ciribini and began working with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters
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Born 1937-09-14.
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