About Renzo Picasso
Lived 1880 – 1975 (aged 94–95). Renzo Picasso was an Italian architect, engineer and urban planner.
Renzo Picasso (1880–1975) was an Italian architect, engineer, and urban planner and designer.
He was the author of the early twentieth century utopian projects for the city of Genoa, such as that for the Piazza de Ferrari, which suggested a development in height for those urban and metropolitan cities with a population of three million inhabitants or more.
His numerous projects for skyscrapers (or rather the "cloudscratchers" as he used to call the high rising towers he dreamt to build, "grattanuvole") are set in a context of wide open spaces to ease human socialization.
He was also the inventor of machines and devices characterized by the use of advanced technologies, such as the Motovol and the auto-scafopattino.
Projects Piazza De Ferrari, Genova, 1909 Luigi Berio, Viaggio in Liguria n°2: Renzo Picasso, FRCS Liguria, 2010
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Who was Renzo Picasso?
Italian architect
When was Renzo Picasso born?
Renzo Picasso was born in 1880 in Genoa.
When did Renzo Picasso die?
Renzo Picasso died in 1975 in Genoa.
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Renzo Picasso was an architect, engineer and urban planner.
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Renzo Picasso was Italian.
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