VILLA NAVE,
THE HEADQUARTER OF THE
RENZO PIANO FOUNDATION
The Foundation is based in Villa Nave, overlooking the sea at Vesima and a few meters away from the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa. The spaces of Villa Nave host the Living Archive, a selection of drawings, sketches and models that give an overview of the projects and buildings constructed over more than fifty years, from the experimental structures of the sixties to the most recent works.
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The Classroom, where the ongoing projects of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop are exhibited, is devoted to conferences, meetings, lectures and workshops. The garden that borders Villa Nave is using for making mock-ups, parts on a 1:1 scale of many buildings, some of which are kept in these spaces. Since 2009, Villa Nave has been opened to the public on several occasions and visits can be booked through this website in the Welcome section.
FUNDING
The Foundation's activities are funded by donations from Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
ORGANIZATION
The organs of the Foundation are the Board of Directors, made up of ten members and the Scientific Committee, made up of eight members.
THE RENZO PIANO PROJECT
The donation also led to the establishment of a Steering Committee, which includes four members of the Politecnico and four members from the Foundation. In 2025 the members became ten.
The Steering Committee's role is to provide guidance and make decisions to ensure the intentions outlined in the agreement are executed effectively.
Board of directors
Renzo Piano
President
Philippe Goubet
Vice President e Secretary General
Milly Rossato Piano
Lia Piano
Carlo Piano
Matteo Piano
Giorgio Bianchi
(Partner RPBW)
Luigi Priano
(Partner RPBW)
Shunji Ishida
(Fellow RPBW)
Ferruccio Resta
(Politecnico di Milano)
Chiara Bennati
Massimo Pometto
External Auditor
Scientific Committee
Lorenzo Ciccarelli
Architect, Professor of History of Architecture at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Ottavio di Blasi
Architect, ODB - OTTAVIO DI BLASI & Partners
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Architect, Chair Professor of Projects at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and director of the “AV/Arquitectura Viva” magazine
Boris Hamzeian
Architect and architectural historian
Fulvio Irace
Architect, Professor of History of Architecture at the Design School of the Politecnico di Milano
Guglielmo Maisto
Lawyer, Professor of International anc Compared Tax Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza
Maria Salerno
Architect, professor at the ENSAPM, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, RPBW Consultant
Comitato Operativo e di Indirizzo
Renzo Piano
Milly Rossato Piano
Lia Piano
Philippe Goubet
Chiara Bennati
Donatella Sciuto
Ferruccio Resta
Emilio Faroldi
Andrea Campioli
Chiara Pesenti
Thanks to:
Cristiano Amerigo, Erica Bacigalupi, Carlotta Bacilieri, Federica Battaglia, Arianna Baroni, Arianna Bianconi, Federica Carri, Eugenia Dottino, Cino Ermentini, Maria Luisa Fera, Lydia Foster, Giulia Garbarini, Giulia Giglio, Giorgia Grasso, Susanna Ighina, Martina Ivaldi, Letizia Lambiase, Federica Macciò, Andrea Mazzolari, Sara Moretti, Irene Negro, Deborah Ombra, Elena Pepino, Celeste Piano, Allegra Petruzzelli, Alberto Possamai, Camilla Ricci, Keiko Rice, Andrea Storace, Tomaso Tedeschi, Erika Tovo.
Everything we have done in these years, since 2004, is the result of the passionate work of
Milly Rossato Piano, Director of Educational Programs and Conservation, and Lia Piano, Director of Editorial Programs and Communication
with Chiara Bennati, Nicoletta Durante, Giovanna Langasco
and Giovanna Giusto
Thanks to the RPBW'staff who supported us in this 20-years-long journey
