Piano's Concerto

Staff -- Interior Design, 6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

The ninth annual Wexner Prize was awarded in April to Renzo Piano—the first architect to receive the honor. Piano rose to prominence in the 1970s with his design for the Pompidou Centre and has continued to build visionary projects ever since—including Houston's Menil Collection and forthcoming headquarters for the New York Times and the Art Institute of Chicago. "With keen imagination and virtuosic technique, he has expanded the very possibilities of architecture in our time," says Sherri Geldin, director of the Wexner Center.