Renzo Piano: The Epic of Light, Lightness and Responsibility

When I contemplate the architecture of Renzo Piano, I do not see an architect searching for noise. I see him searching for light. For lightness. For transparency. And for that moment when technology stops displaying its power and begins serving the human being.

Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937. He studied at the Politecnico di Milano and graduated in architecture in 1964. He came from a family closely connected to building and construction. For him, architecture was therefore never drawing alone. It was material, assembly, detail, site, and the hand of the worker touching stone, metal, and glass.

I believe this early relationship with real construction remained with him throughout his life. He can dream. But he wants the dream to stand upon the earth.