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Renzo Piano

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Profession:Architect
Born:    14/Sep/1937

The winner of the 1998 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Renzo Piano was born in Genoa (Italy) in 1937. After graduating from Milan Polytechnic in 1964, Piano worked with many famous architects before establishing his own practice, Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

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Renzo Piano (2 buildings)Renzo Piano's name sounds as harmonious and striking as his architectural works. The Italian architect is perhaps best known for his design of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the unmistakable cultural center in the heart of Paris, and thirty years after its construction, Piano uses similar techniques in the new New York Times Building, but to a different end...

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