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		Piano went on to relate that Brunelleschi, who is Piano's favorite architect from history, studied the mechanism of the clock so that he could apply it to a system of great counterweights which in turn was used to raise the beams for the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
		Piano was approached by Padre Gerardo, an administrator to the monks of San Giovanni Rotondo, to design a temple for the ever-increasing numbers of pilgrims coming to visit the places where Padre Pio, a friar famous for his stigmata, used to live.
		Piano won the competition to develop the master plan for the area which when finished will be home and workplace for some 40,000 people, a figure that will double during each day with people drawn to the various activities there.
	www.pritzkerprize.com /rzpbio.htm (4768 words)

	MSN Encarta - Renzo Piano
		Renzo Piano, born in 1937, Italian architect, internationally renowned for buildings that combine inventive structural form with a highly original approach to the use of materials and that display a concern for urban context (see Architecture).
		Piano used terra cotta and glass to give a unified look to the 18 buildings in this commercial center, which was completed in the year 2000.
		In 1985 the French government awarded Piano membership in the Legion of Honor, and in 2000 he was made an officer of the Legion of Honor, the country’s highest distinction.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579636/Renzo_Piano.html (395 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Conversation with Renzo Piano -- June 19, 1998
		RENZO PIANO: I did that competition in 1971, together with Richard Rogers, who is one of my best friends, and we are still great friends, and we were very young.
		RENZO PIANO: You may feel a bit funny what they're saying, but the Menil Collection Museum in Houston is in a sense also provocation like Beauborg was in Paris, except that in Paris it was a city full of memory, too much memory.
		RENZO PIANO: You know, it's even a bit amusing, because you feel a bit funny, because being the architect of the year is a bit like being the top of the year or I'll say the best of the month or-and you wonder what happens next year.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june98/piano_6-19.html (1743 words)

	renzo piano
		Piano's architecture, as demonstrated throughout this exhibit in the sheer amount of experimentation shown toward developing his ideas, makes clear the axiom that to make anything of use in the world requires vast amount of capital, whether human, monetary, or material.
		Piano as an architect lacks a school in a conventional sense; he does not have followers imitating the formal language of his brand of "high-tech," for example.
		Piano's work is consistently evolutionary, an undetermined response, and continually explores architectural constants as they explore issues of urbanism, static forces, light, or enclosure.
	www.buildme.net /Writing/piano.html (956 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Renzo Piano - Architect
		Renzo Piano's creativity continued to reach new heights with the Tjibaou Cultural Centre on the small South Pacific island of New Caledonia.
		Piano responded in style, basing his structure around lofty, soaring, wooden shells which evoke native building traditions and integrate almost organically with the landscape.
		Renzo Piano is unquestionably regarded as one of the very finest architects in the world and one of few living architects who could be described as a 'Master' without fear of promptly being taken to task.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1067951 (1168 words)

	AllRefer.com - Renzo Piano (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Piano came to worldwide attention when he and Richard Rogers designed the Pompidou Centre (popularly known as Beaubourg) in Paris.
		The prolific Piano has been lauded for responding to the needs of each building site rather than cleaving to a single architectural style and for his command of engineering technology.
		In recognition of his achievements, Piano was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1998.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PianoR.html (301 words)

	TIME: A Brash Builder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Piano may have eschewed the family firm, but in the 34 years since he graduated from the Milan Polytechnic School of Architecture, he has consistently paid loving homage to the family's ancestral ways of craftsmanship by using its traditions on his buildings.
		Piano first burst onto the international scene in 1977 as the provocative young architect who, with Britain's Richard Rogers, designed the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
		Others recognized Piano's talents: commissions for office towers, housing and luxury ocean liners started coming to the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa, the atelier Piano named in honor of his family.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/1998/int/980504/the_arts.architecture.a_22.html (559 words)

	Renzo Piano to Design Whitney Expansion - Wired New York Forum
		Piano's plan is far more modest in size and scale than the ambitious $200 million proposal of the Rotterdam architect Rem Koolhaas, which the board abandoned last year, saying it would have been too expensive both to build and to operate.
		Piano said he would not promise that his extension would not be higher than the existing museum.
		Renzo Piano's drawing of an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art, as viewed from Madison Avenue with the current building on the left.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4997 (4979 words)

	Hunter Douglas Contract Reference Projects Article
		The New York Times Headquarters by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, for example, is a shining example of the future: Tall buildings that use less energy and promote better health for their occupants.
		Piano's goals for the project were embraced by all the major collaborators, which included global development firm Bovis Lend Lease, Group GSA (design development and documentation architects for the commercial and residential projects together with HPA Mirvac), and Innovarchi (a Sydney-based architectural firm with principals Ken McBryde and Stephanie Smith).
		Piano wanted the blinds to be motorized, lifting simultaneously in the morning to create the appearance of the building waking up.
	www.hunterdouglascontract.com /referenceprojects/article.jsp?projectId=502&pId=p10502 (1260 words)

	Renzo Piano By Christopher Hawthorne
		Piano, who is 67, is now working on three projects in Manhattan for high-profile clients: a tower for the New York Times (in tandem with a bigger firm, Fox and Fowle) and extensions to the Morgan Library and the Whitney Museum.
		Piano's firm's work is distinguished by the details of the buildings it designs—and by the accumulation of these details, rather than dramatic forms (à la Frank Gehry), metaphorical conceits (à la Daniel Libeskind), or avant-garde gestures (à la Hadid).
		Piano designed the Pompidou with the British architect Richard Rogers when both were in their 30s; he's described the building, which opened in 1978, as a "young man's building" and an "act of loutish bravado."
	www.slate.com /id/2111088 (1549 words)

	Piano, Renzo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Renzo the magnificent: a series of important U.S. commissions is about to bring the poetic, understated architecture of Renzo Piano to a wider American audience.(Arts Flash)
		A basilica fit for a saint It took dozens of faxed blessings from a Capuchin monk to persuade Renzo Piano to build a vast pilgrim church dedicated to Padre Pio in a remote corner of southern Italy.
		Renzo Piano devant l'église dédiée au Padre Pio à San Giovanni Rotondo Plusieurs dizaines de milliers de fidèles ont inaug.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PianoR1.asp (1098 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - Klee Comes Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Genovan architect Renzo Piano is justly celebrated for the beautiful, natural white light that he puts into his designs.
		Piano was given carte blanche, with the (practical, Swiss) proviso that in addition to the museum he create a multi-purpose civic facility that could be rented out convention-style to offset operating costs.
		It is clear that for Piano, Klee's legacy as one of the "great teachers of the Bauhaus" is referenced not only in the spare, functional vocabulary of the space, but also in the spirit of the Center, where two of the three buildings house a new concert hall, café, Klee archives and a children's museum.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/ripley/ripley6-30-05.asp (773 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts features \| Q: What can be done to improve the suburbs of Paris? A: People are starting to ...
		The Renzo Piano Building Workshop is not the largest firm of architects in the world, but its commissions are among the most prestigious.
		Piano describes Genoa as "the austere version of Venice - Venice is the city of extroversion and Genoa the city of introversion" - and says he carries the memory of it in his "skin".
		Piano's other great linchpin is his optimism, which he relates to the experience of growing up during the postwar reconstruction, particularly since his father was so intimately involved in it.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1647127,00.html (2064 words)

	Renzo Piano: Renaissance Man Reincarnate - Kenneth Powell
		Renzo Piano is not the first modern architect to see his work as, to some degree, a reincarnation of Renaissance ideals--indeed, he cites the great Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi as his most potent source of inspiration.
		Piano is, of course, an Italian, born in Genoa in 1937.
		A strong practical sense, accompanied by a love of sound construction and craftsmanship, is not infrequently identified as an abiding characteristic of Renzo Piano's work.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1989/november/Sa16511.htm (278 words)

	Renzo Piano
		Renzo Piano's architecture reflects that rare melding of art, architecture, and engineering in a truly remarkable synthesis, making his intellectual curiosity and problem-solving techniques as broad and far ranging as those earlier masters of his native land, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
		The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material and form.
		Piano proved himself a master of the gigantic project with Kansai, the world's largest air terminal in Osaka Bay, Japan, and again with the imposing Bercy Shopping Center in Paris, as well as a massive and beautiful National Science Museum in Amsterdam.
	www.pritzkerprize.com /98piano.htm (7411 words)

	Renzo Piano, Fox & Fowle Architects. New York Times Company New Headquarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The new 52-storey Times Company Headquarters, Renzo Piano's first major project in New York City, will occupy one of the last sites in the 42nd Street Development Are; a 13-acre district adjoining Times Square designated for redevelopment in the mid-1980s by New York State and City government.
		Renzo Piano calls the design for the New Times Company Headquarters, a collaboration with Bruce Fowle of Fox and Fowle Architects, "An Expression of Love" for New York City.
		Piano took his inspiration from the utility and symmetry of Manhattan's world-famous rectangular street grid in designing a building with a shape he described as "simple and primary."
	www.arcspace.com /architects/piano/NYT/index_a.htm (1046 words)

	Academy of Sciences redesign blends building with the park, architect says / Famed Italian designer selected for $250 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Piano, 63, is one of several major international architects at work on projects in San Francisco.
		Piano stressed yesterday that he wants to preserve several of the academy's visual symbols: Steinhart Aquarium and the long classical structures that flank the main entrance on the park's Music Concourse.
		Piano spoke yesterday of how he is intrigued by the slight hills on the east and west ends of the complex.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/25/MNL163041.DTL (653 words)

	The Morgan Library Expansion Project \| Renzo Piano Workshop
		Renzo Piano was born into a family of builders in Genoa, Italy, in 1937.
		His collaboration with Richard Rogers dates from 1971 (Piano and Rogers), with Peter Rice from 1977 (Atelier Piano & Rice), and currently he has offices in Genoa and Paris under the name Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
		The prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, which was awarded to Piano in 1998, is among the many honors he has received.
	www.morganlibrary.org /expansion/renzo.asp (176 words)

	Arts Unlimited \| Arts features \| Renzo Piano, Foggia, Italy
		Designed by the Genoese architect Renzo Piano, the massive new basilica of San Giovanni Rotondo is to be the centre of the global cult of Padre Pio, the legendary Capuchin friar canonised by Pope John Paul II before half a million devotees at St Peter's Rome in June.
		Piano, one of the most inventive and accomplished of today's architects, is a moderniser.
		It is little short of miraculous that the Church has commissioned Renzo Piano to design and build such a powerful and populist monument.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,801421,00.html (1332 words)

	Nasher Sculpture Center: Building & Garden: Renzo Piano, Architect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Piano is noted for his design of the Kansai International Air Terminal in Osaka, Japan, the Museum of Science and Technology in Amsterdam, and a cultural center in Nouméa, New Caledonia.
		Piano was also involved in the monumental redevelopment of Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, both as master planner for the set of fifteen buildings and as architect of eight of them. Mr.
		Piano’s current projects include expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago; expansion of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; new facilities for the Morgan Library in New York City; The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA; The New York Times building in New York City; and a master plan for Columbia University.
	www.nashersculpturecenter.org /Index.cfm?FuseAction=Page&PageID=1000033 (194 words)

	Frances Loeb Library: Frances Loeb Library: Renzo Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Renzo Piano / par Luciana Miotto ; entretiens avec Francois Barr}e...
		Renzo Piano : pezzo per pezzo, catalogo della mostra = Renzo Piano : piece by piece, catalogue of the exhibition / edited by Gianpiero Donin.
		Renzo Piano has rebuilt Constantin Brancusi's studio, which was demolished in 1957, outside the Pompidou Center.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /library/services/reference/bibliographies/piano.html (791 words)

	Renzo Piano
		Met Jean Prouvé: the start of a close friendship which was to have a major effect on Renzo Piano’s life and work.
		At present, Renzo Piano heads workshops in Genoa, Paris and Berlin, under the combined name of Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), with architects, engineers and other specialists working together, in some cases for years.
		Renzo Piano has won many awards and honours for his work over the last twenty years at international level, with 26 prizes, honorary memberships and doctorates honoris causa.
	www.paulkleezentrum.ch /ww/en/pub/web_root/zpk/die_architektur/renzo_piano.cfm (419 words)

	Renzo Piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2003 his Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church in San Giovanni Rotondo (Italy) was completed.
		One of his most recent designs is the proposed Shard London Bridge skyscraper (also known as the London Bridge Tower or Shard of glass) in London.
		"Renzo Piano - A celebrity architect without all the glitz" Slate article
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Renzo_Piano (334 words)

	Architecture: Monumental Dining \| Renzo Piano \| Food & Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Renzo Piano is a man of outsize talents.
		Piano's steel-and-glass gallery atop Turin's recently refurbished Fiat factory is a bold venue for a world-class art collection.
		San Giovanni Rotondo, on the spur of Italy's boot in Puglia, is a destination for the religious—and the curious—who come to visit the crypt of Padre Pio, a monk who was reported to have been a miracle-worker until his death in 1968.
	www.foodandwine.com /articles/architecture:-monumental-dining-\|-renzo-piano (1274 words)

	Londra - Renzo Piano racconta ad Emma Brockes perchè le città sono state tradite - Europaconcorsi
		L'intervistatrice Emma Brockes domanda a Renzo Piano cosa si deve fare per migliorare i sobborghi di Parigi e l'architetto risponde che forse si dovrebbe finalmente cominciare a pensare che la vera sfida sta nel trasformare le periferie in città
		That is why when he attended the opening of his extension to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta three weeks ago, Piano took aside Shirley Franklin, the mayor- 'a great lady'- and implored her to keep the piazza outside the museum uncluttered.
		Piano describes Genoa as 'the austere version of Venice- Venice is the city of extroversion and Genoa the city of introversion'- and says he carries the memory of it in his 'skin'.
	www.europaconcorsi.com /db/rec/inbox.php?id=7972 (2051 words)

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