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A native of Genoa, Italy, where he is still based, Renzo Piano has filled his broad portfolio with urban residential towers, glistening corporate headquarters, and iconic museums that have defined modern architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries.
After completing his groundbreaking and controversial inside-out Centre Pompidou museum in Paris (with Richard Rogers) in 1977, Renzo Piano ultimately settled on a style of glass-and-steel structures that have an uncanny ability to simultaneously (and seamlessly) create a sense of identity and weightlessness. Two of his skyscrapers, the New York Times building in Manhattan and London’s The Shard, have become icons, and his no-nonsense approach to cultural institutions has created instantly recognizable structures such as The Whitney Museum in New York, and earlier this year, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
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