His provided architectural world with more than 40 major projects that include: This is the reason that each and every design of piano is different from every other design, thus leaving no space for consistency in his work. He has this skill with designing where every single design has its own peculiar solution only specific to it. He encouraged the young lot to look at his work for its methodology rather than for its architectural forms. Piano acquired the competence of controlling the technology with an extensive research. According to Piano, materials are the best tools of an architect of all times and he must identify their power to use them to a far off extent. He had a strong faith in amalgamation of craftsmanship and the latest technology. He kept on learning technological knowledge and used it to overcome architectural problems in more productive and modern way.
Renzo Piano is a most suitable laureate for the 1990 Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences.Throughout his career Renzo Piano has been in a constant struggle to surpass the clashes between creativity and scientific constraints. Piano continues to create the most remarkable architectural work which is also said to be the most humane. In addition, he has earned a reputation for the design of several local revitalization projects in which he focused on the harmony between nature and the cultural environment where they are located.Īmong contemporary architects, his architecture has made a clear footprint on the history of architecture in the last half of the 20th century. Piano is well known for his designs of the Pompidou Culture Centre in Paris, the IBM Traveling Pavilion, and the Menil Collection Museum in Houston, Texas. His work includes maximum architectural variability and suggests the direction of future architecture. As an architect, he developed his thinking by examining the root of the Italian traditional word “techne” and its meaning which has continued from the time of the Renaissance. Piano has researched the root of the term “technology,” and consequently has started rethinking the relationship between “technology” and “architecture” resulting in his theory that the two disciplines must be molded together. The word “architecture” is made up of the combination of “archi” and “techne.” The word “techne” has been changed to “technique” and then to “technology,” which is the term used today. In an era of confusion of various architectural concepts, he consistently combined architectural styles with developing technology to achieve higher levels of humanistic expression. Piano belongs to the generation which appeared after this age of “modern” architecture.
However, the architectural concepts established at that time did not begin to be employed in construction practice until the 1950 to 1960 period.
It is commonly held that the origin of “modern” architecture can be traced to the period of 1920 to 1930. The distinctiveness of his architectural style lies not in purely logical and mechanical expression, but in that of raising technology to an allegoric and aesthetically impressive form. Piano is one of the leaders of modern high-tech architecture. In this manner, he cleared the path for new architectural possibilities as we proceed from the 20th to the 21st century. Renzo Piano’s architecture lies on an extension of the analysis of functionalism and functional expression of modern architecture, it successfully departs from the classic holistic expression.