Associate Architect, Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Born in 1960, he studied architecture in the Netherlands at the TU (Technical University) in Delft. After having worked with the City of Rotterdam on its harbour front development, he came to the Workshop in Genoa in 1989.
He started on the Columbus International Exposition in Genoa (1992) and followed the iconic “Grande Bigo”. He was responsible for the National Science Centre “Nemo” in Amsterdam (1997) and worked on the Aurora Place office tower and residential building in Sydney (completed in 2000). He became an Associate in 1997. He was the Project Lead Architect for the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco which opened in 2008 and for the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway (completed in 2012). He played a similar role for the JNBY project in Hangzhou and the Whittle School in Shenzhen, (2019) both in China. Now he works in Greece for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Health Initiative, the template for future hospitals, in particular the General Hospital in Sparta.
