Renzo Piano is an Italian Architect who was born and raised in Genoa. He studied architecture at the University of Florence and Polytechnic University of Milan.

Piano taught at the Polytechnic University from 1965 until 1968, and expanded his horizons and technical skills by working in two large international firms, for the modernist architect Louis Kahn in Philadelphia and for the Polish engineer Zygmunt Stanisław Makowski in London.

Some of his most notable projects include: The Shard in London, The New York Times Building in New York City and California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

«In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years», Piano, Renzo.