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Renzo Piano

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Renzo Piano (Italian: [ˈrɛntso ˈpjaːno]; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2022) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016). He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998. Piano has served as a senator for life in the Italian Senate since 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Renzo Piano is the 24th most popular architect, the 507th most popular biography from Italy (down from 439th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Architect.

Renzo Piano is most famous for designing the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Renzo Piano ranks 24 out of 518Before him are Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Francesco Borromini, Apollodorus of Damascus, and Georges-Eugène Haussmann. After him are Otto Wagner, Frank Gehry, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Victor Horta, André Le Nôtre, and Adolf Loos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Renzo Piano ranks 19Before him are Bobby Charlton, Jane Fonda, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Queen Sonja of Norway, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and Princess Birgitta of Sweden. After him are Robert Coleman Richardson, Robert Lucas Jr., Madeleine Albright, Vanessa Redgrave, Queen Paola of Belgium, and Avram Hershko.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Renzo Piano ranks 507 out of 5,161Before him are Pietro Badoglio (1871), Giuseppe Piazzi (1746), Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1416), Marcello Malpighi (1628), Tiberius Claudius Nero (-85), and Pope John III (520). After him are Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Cesare Beccaria (1738), Maria Anna of Savoy (1803), Tinto Brass (1933), Pope Hilarius (415), and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666).

Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Renzo Piano ranks 6Before him are Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598), Vitruvius (-75), Donato Bramante (1443), Andrea Palladio (1508), and Leon Battista Alberti (1404). After him are Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507), Giacomo della Porta (1533), Arnolfo di Cambio (1240), Aldo Rossi (1931), Michelozzo (1396), and Guarino Guarini (1624).