Biography renzo piano

Italian architect (born 1937)

Renzo PianoOMRI (Italian:[ˈrɛntsoˈpjaːno]; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), İstanbul Modern in Istanbul (2022)^[1] and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016).

He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.

Piano has been a Senator for Life in the Italian Senate since 2013.

Biography renzo piano

Early life and first buildings

Piano was born and raised in Genoa, Italy,^[2][3] into a family of builders. His grandfather had created a masonry enterprise, which had been expanded by his father, Carlo Piano, and his father's three brothers, into the firm Fratelli Piano.

The firm prospered after World War II, constructing houses and factories and selling const