Piano was born in Genoa, Italy in 1937.  All the men in his family were contractors but Renzo chose to be an architect.  He graduated from Milan Poitechnic Architecture School.  Some of his major influences throughout his learning and work careers have been: Franco Albini (whom Piano worked under), Louis I. Kahn from Philadelphia, ZS Makowski from London, and Pierluigi Nervi.  His first wife was named Magda Arudion and together they had three kids, two boys and a girl who is persuing an architectural career.  Piano’s first major commission was in 1969, the Italian Industry pavilion at Expo ‘70 in Osaka.  Together with Richard Roger (Rano-Rogers was their short lived company name) they designed Pompidou Centre in Paris. Throughout his career Piano designed forty major structures, including: museums, churches, shopping centers, bridges, airports ect..  Dominique De Menil (an art collector) commissioned Piano to design a museum for her collection.  His latest and largest project was the airport in Osaka, Japan that was constructed on an artificial island in the bay.  He has also won thirty prizes between 1978-2001 including: the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998 and The Wexner Prize in 2001.  Renzo Piano - The Bubble - “Bolla” includes a greenhouse and aquarium inside where you can take tours.  This interested me particularly because I love science.  I chose this piece because I wanted to do something that did not have many sharp exact angles in it, and something that didnt necessarily look like a building. It is just very aesthetically pleasing and eco friendly :)   The color of the design, blends in this its surrounding, it is clear glass which  gives the building  natural light, and the inside has lush flora to blend with it’s environment.  It has radial symmetry and strong balance because it is round.  There is repetition with the panels of glass that make up the structure, and variety within the different shapes of the white canopies on the inside.  It has unity because it is a sphere and because it is balances!  There is both interior and exterior shape within and surrounding the structure and because of the structures on the inside and the main structure being clear, there is also negative shape created.