Renzo Piano
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"Renzo Piano", Order of Merit of the Italian Republic/Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italy/Italian Pritzker Architecture Prize/Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world."

In 2006, Piano was selected by Time (magazine)/TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was selected as the 10th most influential person in the "Arts and Entertainment" category of the 2006 Time 100.

In August 2013 he was appointed Senator for Life in the Italian Senate by President Giorgio Napolitano.

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We chose steel and extra wide panels of glass, which is almost like crystal. These are honest materials that create the right sense of strength and clarity between old and new, as well as a sense of transparency in the center of the institution that opens the campus up to the street.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

The north hill is devoted to Paul Klee the musician and teacher, the central hill to the painter and poet and the south hill to the researcher and mathematician.

Now this is the fourth layer.

Because the center of the composition is not a building, but an empty space.