Briefly covering the professional carrier and famous works done by Architect Renzo Piano all around the world from 1964 till now. He got Pritzker Award.

1. RENZO
PIANO

2. RENZO PIANO
 BIRTH - 14th September1937
 BIRTH PLACE - GENOA(ITALY)
 NATIONALITY- ITALY
 EDUCATION - POLYTECHNICUNIVERSITYOFMILAN
 PROFESSIONALCARRIER - 1964 – PRESENT
 KNOWN FOR – Delicateandrefineddesignforlightweight
structures
 ARCHITECTURAL FIRM - RENZOPIANOBUILDING
WORKSHOP (RBPS)
 HEAD OFFICE – GENOA(ITALY)
PARIS(FRANCE)
 AWARDS - PRITZKERAWARD(1998)
RIBAGOLDMEDAL
KYOTOPRIZE

3. EARLY LIFE AND STARTING OF PROFESSIONAL
CARRIER
 He was born into a family of builders.
 He used to visit sites with his father which led him
become interested in buildings and construction and
graduated from MILAN UNIVERSITY OF POLYTECHNIC in
1964 with a dissertation about Modular coordination.
 He taught in the Milan University from 1965 to 1968 and
worked in two large international firms –
1. LOUIS ISADORE KAHN (Modernist Architect)
2. ZYGMUNT STALINSLAW MAKAOVSKI
 He began working with lightweight structures and basic
shelters.

4.  He completed his first project IPE Factory in
Genoa in 1968 with a roof of steel and
reinforced polyester.
 He got his first international project in 1970
to design Pavilion of Italian industry for EXPO
70 in OSAKA, JAPAN.
 British architect Richard Rogers greatly
admired this light weight structure and in
1971 he opened a firm with piano named
Piano and Rogers and they worked together
till 1978.
 The unusual light weight design features of
Piano attracted the jurie members and they
selected Piano and Rogers to design The
Pompidou center .
 In 1981 Piano started his own firm
Renzo piano building workshop.
Light weight roof of IPE Factory
The Italian Pavilion at EXPO 70 , OSAKA
The George Pompidou Center, Paris

5. 1. It is an immediate architectural icon of Paris, the Centre national d’art
de culture Georges-Pompidouis is a vast multidisciplinary structure.
2.It is a culture factory that preserves and exhibits important modern art
collections. It is a place where the many strands of contemporary culture
intertwine: art, design, literature, music and cinema.
3.The centre is like a huge spaceship made of glass, steel and coloured
tubing that landed unexpectedly in the heart of the Paris, and where it
would very quickly set deep roots.
Center Georges Pompidou

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Basic structures
elevations
plan

7. 1. Renovation of Historical buildings.
2. Museum
3. Industrial
4. Education and Universities
5. Concert and Convention Hall
6. Mixed use
7. Master Planning
8. Offices
9. Residential and Hotel
10. Exhibitions design
Different types of buildings designed by RENZO PIANO

8. 1. Harvard Art Museums renovation and expansion (Cambridge,
MA, U.S.A)
 Project Duration – 2008 – 2014
 Objective – To consolidate Harvard University’s three art museums –
the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Arthur M. Sackler – into one
reorganized and upgraded facility, Harvard Art Museums.
2. Genoa Subway Stations ( Genoa, Italy)
 Project Duration – 1983 – 2003
 Objective -.each station was designed according to its unique
topographic context, the platforms, points of access, component parts,
and sign systems were kept consistent in order to establish a
recognizable architectural identity.
 The Genoa subway network has eight stations, five of which were
designed by Renzo piano and team.
Renovation of Historical Buildings

9. 1. Whitney Museum of American Arts (Manhatton, New York)
 Project Duration- 2007 - 2015
 Objective- The project substantially enlarges the Whitney’s
exhibition and programming space, enabling the first
comprehensive view of the Museum’s growing collection, which
today comprises more than 19,000 works of modern and
contemporary American art.
 Renzo Piano says – “terrace are really a place to enjoy the life”
and he provided terrace to different floors of the Whitney
museums.
 According to Piano lobbies are like
Plaza where people exchange their
ideas, so he provided it with large
welcoming lobbies.
Museums

10. 2. NEMO (National centre for Science and technology)
 Project Duration – 1992 – 1997
 It is a science and technology museum, NEMO is located on a small stretch of land
in the port, straddling the entrance to a road tunnel.
 It is surrounded by water, the building has a ship-like form and pre-oxidized copper-
clad facades, referencing the surrounding port.
 A pedestrian ramp leads up onto the building’s sloping roof that serves as a public
piazza for visitors and as a social focus for the neighbourhood
.

11. 3. Atelier Brancusi (Reconstruction)
(Paris, France)
 Project Duration – 1992-1996
 It is recessed in the Place Beaubourg, just in front of the Centre
Pompidou, this small building hosts a permanent exhibition of the
works of sculptor Constantin Brancusi.
 The major challenge of this project was to reproduce the exact layout
of the artist’s works as they had been displayed in his original studio
before he left them to the French government.
 The atelier replicates the layout, the volume and the light of the
original studio, but is housed in a larger, square, flat-roofed pavilion.
Glass replaces solid walls to enable visitors to walk around the
outside of the studio within an enclosed circulation space.
 The whole building is further protected from the busy piazza
immediately outside by a walled planted courtyard.
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12. 1. Ferrari Wind Tunnel (Marnello, Italy)
 Project Duration – 1996-1998
 The Ferrari Wind Tunnel, a space to test drag on racing cars, is
more like an enormous machine than a building in the way all
the mechanisms and apparatus are on show instead of being
hidden from view.
 The tunnel is 80 metres long by 70 metres wide.
2. Mercedes benz Design Center (Sindelfingen, Germany)
 Project Duration – 1993-1998
 The form of the 30,000 sq m Mercedes Design Centre is a
direct result of the building's function.
 The building’s shape resembles an open fan in which each of
the seven leaves houses a different function.
 The roof of the building is composed of aluminium panels
arranged in a toroidal geometry.
INDUSTRIAL

13. Other Notable Projects
Central Saint Gile’s Court
Niccolo Paganini auditorium Ushibuka Bridge
The Shard ( London Bridge Tower)
The New york
Times Building

14. The living roof of California
Institute Diogene (a single living unit) Kansai International Airport
Beyler foundation Museum The Menil Collection Building IBM travelling Pavilion
Jean-Marie tjibaou Cultural
center
Postdamer Platz
Aurora Place
Private House in Colarado

15.  Architecture is not one thing, it is many things . It is science, technology, geography,
typography, anthropology, sociology and history.
 Architecture is an art but art vastly contaminated by other things . Contimanited is the best
sense of the word –fed fertilized by many things .
 Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth
material, of giving a 3-D quality to flat surface.
 As an Architect you are a builder, you have to be a militant, you have to be visionary, you
have to be an artist, but certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from here.
 Architect spend an entire life with this reasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
 If you have a total freedom, then you are in trouble. Its better when you have some
obligation, some discipline, some rules. When there is no rules then you are start to build
your own rules.
 You need a kind of balance between gratitude for past, desire of invention , curiosity for
unknown.
 Every creative work is somewhere between memory and oblivion.
 Museum is a place where people love to see art and duty of an architect is to design such a
museum where people get lost in art of the building , a museum should always be
welcoming people.
PHILOSIPHIES AND CONCEPT ABOUT BUILDINGS

16. Presented by –
CHETAN SIDDHARTHA
Department of ARCHITECTURE
NIT PATNA
2nd Semester
Bibliography
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