Renzo Picasso

Renzo Picasso (1880–1975) was an Italian architect, engineer, and urban planner and designer.^[1][2][3]

He was the author of the early twentieth century utopian projects for the city of Genoa, such as that for the Piazza de Ferrari, which suggested a development in height for those urban and metropolitan cities with a population of three million inhabitants or more.^[4][5]

His numerous projects for skyscrapers (or rather the "cloudscratchers" as he used to call the high rising towers he dreamt to build, "grattanuvole") are set in a context of wide open spaces to ease human socialization.^[6]

He was also the inventor of machines and devices characterized by the use of advanced technologies, such as the Motovol and the auto-scafopattino.^[7]

Projects

• Piazza De Ferrari, Genova, 1909^[5]
• New city, New Genova, 1913, Renzo Picasso

Bibliography

• Renzo Picasso (1936). I grattacieli ed i loro alleati in terra, in mare ed in cielo: The skyscrapers and their allies on land, water and in the air. Arti grafiche Caimo & c.
• Alessandro Ravera, "Ai due capi di una stessa rotta; New York e Genova viste da Renzo Picasso"
• Gian Luca Porcile, "Modelli urbani e tipologie edilizie: la città e il grattacielo nell'opera di Renzo Picasso"
• Nicola Canessa, "Dal treno verticale alla macchina volante: Renzo Picasso e l'utopia della mobilità"^[7]
• Luigi Berio, Viaggio in Liguria n°2: Renzo Picasso, FRCS Liguria, 2010