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Renzo Piano

1937– · Italian architect · Italy

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Renzo Piano at the "Festival della Scienza", Genoa, Italy.
Cirone-Musi (Festival della Scienza, Genova)Color and edits by the uploader. · Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source

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Developed technically inventive cultural and civic architecture emphasizing lightness, detail and public use.

Key works

  • Centre Pompidou
  • The Shard

THE RETHINK

Renzo Piano helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Renzo Piano changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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