Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy in 1937. From 1959 to 1964 he studied at the Milan Politecnico, where he taught until 1968. In 1970 Piano established a partnership with the English architect Richard Rogers.
Together, Rogers and Piano designed a number of buildings in Italy and England. Their most famous building, the Pompidou Center in Paris, takes its form from a metaphor of the 'cultural machine' with all color-coded service elements and structure emphasized on the building's exterior.
Like most works designed by members of the "High-Tech" movement, Piano established technology as a starting point for his designs. Fortunately, he modified his attempts to generate an architectural character based on technological forms with a concern for user comfort and needs. In his more recent works, Piano has applied his structural experiments to a range of social and civic projects.

Selected Works:
Centre Pompidou (with Richard Rogers), Paris, France 1971-1977
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas 1982-1987
Lingotto Factory Conversion, Turin, Italy 1983-Present
Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, San Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia), Italy 1991-Present
Rome Auditorium, Rome, Italy 1996-2002

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