Renzo Piano: 'when you are sailing with your son, you start to confess things'
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telegraph.co.ukKirribilli, named after a suburb in Sydney, where Piano has constructed two buildings."I do good sailing with that boat," he tells me. "Every summer we go all around the Mediterranean.
And the good thing about sailing boats is that they are slow, and after a while you start to think and see things you don't normally think or see."Piano is among the most lauded architects of the past 50 years.
Awarding him the Pritzker Prize in 1998 (the Nobel Prize of architecture), the jury compared him to Michelangelo and da Vinci, crediting him with "redefining modern and postmodern architecture" - most visibly in buildings like the "inside out" Pompidou Centre in Paris; The Shard in London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Academy.
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