(1)Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy in 1937. He was born into a family of builders, as his grandfather, father, brother and uncles were all contractors. He studied at Milan Poitechnic Architecture School.
(2)"One of his most famous museum is De Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. It was in 1982, that art collector Dominique de Menil contacted Renzo Piano to design a museum for her collection, which embodied more than 10 000 works of primitive and modem art. The museum was intended also as a centre for music, literature, theatre and cultural educational activities. It is located in a small park surrounded by low residential housing, and it is characteristic because of its simplicity, flexibility, open spaces and illumination with natural light Renzo Piano designed special roof of ,.leaves" of thin ferrocement which lets the light inside the exhibition rooms and to which additional liqhts could be easily attached."(3)
Renzo Piano's work 'Menil Collection' explored the themes of modernist architecture as well as classical architecture, accentuating modernistic characteristics, such as the involvement of light, space and climate in his building. Classical architectural characteristic involves the use of 'repetition' which can be found in his repetitive use of the 'leave' roof.
(1)http://crisman.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=373
(2)http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1847105_1775939,00.html
(3)http://architect.architecture.sk/renzo-piano-architect/renzo-piano-architect.php
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