Renzo Piano is the most comprehensive and updated work on this widely influential architect to date. In a strictly autobiographical book, Renzo Piano offers a very thorough assessment of each of his architectural projects, presented in a chronological order. He looks back over the principal stages in their development: how ideas were born, how they were influenced by their sites and earlier experiences; what materials were used and why; the people involved including clients, specialists, workers and artists. The story unfolds through anecdotes that have stuck in his memory, his impressions, his reflections.