WORLD TOUR – Fondazione Renzo Piano

RENZO PIANO WORLD TOUR

“Travel is discovery, travel is life.”

It’s a poetic way of expressing it, but it’s true that travel involves discovery, the unexpected; you look for one thing and find another. Travel is a bit like going to a large library to look for a book: it’s true that you’re looking for that book, but while looking for that book you find many others.

Renzo Piano

Since 2017, the Renzo Piano Foundation has been awarding the Renzo Piano World Tour Award to degree theses that stand out for their design approach to the theme of “The Art of Building: The Importance of Structural Details.”

The winners embark on a 40-day trip around the world to discover the architecture of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and other famous architectural works.

Following an extraordinary first edition, organized in collaboration with HABITAT2020 and ProViaggiArchitettura, the Foundation decided to make the award one of its cornerstones, involving other important Italian and European institutions and universities.
The number of participants and entities involved is determined each year, as are the stops on the tour, which are proposed based on specific educational and study objectives, making it an opportunity for apprenticeship and training.

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2025

Winners: Sara Fornaciari, Marta Morato Costa, Thierry Gédéon

Universities: University of Bologna, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid

Period: June 21, 2025 – July 29, 2025

Itinerary: Paris – Lausanne – Geneva – Bern – Basel – Wheil Am Rhein – Ronchamp – Zurich – Lisbon – Bilbao – Santander – London – Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Shanghai – Hangzhou – Osaka – Kyoto – Tokyo – Nouméa – Milan – Genoa.

On June 21, 2025, the seventh edition of the RPWT took off, with three students from the Universities of Bologna, Paris, and Madrid participating.
Once again, the synergistic efforts of the Renzo Piano Foundation, Fundacion Botìn, and Vitra, with logistical support from ProViaggiArchitettura and media partnership from professionearchitetto.it, made this extraordinary experience possible.

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RPWT 05 a cura di L. Ciccarelli; M. Piano e C. Bennati

2024

Winners: Paola Meneghetti, Flore Teyssendier de la Serve, Iván Rando Campos

Universities: University of Padua, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid

Period: : June 20, 2024 – July 27, 2024

Itinerary: Paris – Lausanne – Geneva – Bern – Basel – Wheil Am Rhein – Zurich – Bilbao – Santander – London – Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Shanghai – Hangzhou – Osaka – Kyoto – Tokyo – Sydney – Istanbul – Milan – Genoa

In 2024, the sixth edition of the RPWT Award took place and the supporting institutions promoted the call for applications to select three students from the following universities: University of Padua, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid.
ProviaggiArchitettura and Professione Architetto collaborated on the project.

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RPWT 05 a cura di Fondazione Renzo Piano

2023

Winners: Alvaro Romero Sancho, Chiara Barbetta, Antoine Geiger, Maria Schrøder

Universities: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, La Sapienza University of Rome, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, AHO – Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Periodo: : June 19, 2023 – July 28, 2023

Itinerary: Paris – Geneva – Bern – Basel – Ronchamp – Zurich – Oslo – Athens – Bilbao – Santander – New York – San Diego – Boston – Chicago – Dallas- Houston – San Francisco – Carmel – Los Angeles – Milan – Genoa

In 2023, the Renzo Piano Foundation will resume the Renzo Piano World Tour Award competition in the usual manner. The Fundación Botín, Selvaag Gruppen, and the Vitra Design Foundation are also sponsoring this edition of the project.
ProviaggiArchitettura and Professione Architetto collaborated on the project.
The universities involved in selecting the winners according to the call for applications promoted by the supporting institutions are: La Sapienza University of Rome, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, and Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

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RPWT 05 a cura di L. Ciccarelli; M. Piano e C. Bennati

2020-2022

Winners: Manuel Bouzas, Alberta Benedetti, Joseph de Metz, Nicholas Ryan Coates

Universities: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, IUAV University of Venice, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, AHO – Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Period: June 30, 2022 – August 8, 2022

Itinerary: Paris – Cologne – Amsterdam – Berlin – Oslo – London – Bilbao – San Sebastian – Athens – Istanbul – Entebbe – Bologna – Turin – Lausanne – Geneva – Bern – Weil Am Rhein – Ronchamp – L’Aquila – Rome

The 2020 edition saw four young architects set out to discover the architecture of Renzo Piano and other famous architects.
Alongside the Renzo Piano Foundation, three other international institutions supported the award: the Fundación Botín, Selvaag Gruppen, and the Vitra Design Foundation.
Proviaggi Architettura and Professione Architetto collaborated on the project.
Due to the health emergency, the trip has been postponed to 2022.
The four winners met in Genoa in early July 2021 to meet Renzo Piano and the organizers and begin to explore the theme of sustainable architecture with Andrea Stella, an Italian skipper involved in an awareness campaign on accessibility and universal design.
On June 30, 2022, the fourth edition of the RPWT finally began.

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RPWT 04 a cura di Lorenzo Ciccarelli

2019

Winners: Valentina Macca, Eirinaios-Stylianos Palpanis, Paul-Antoine Yves Marie Lucas, Andrea Basso, Raul Ferrandiz Lopez, Lukas Kaufmann

Universities : University of Catania, National Technical University of Athens, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, University of Padua, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Technische Universität München.

Period: June 19, 2019 – July 28, 2019

Itinerary 1: Paris – Oslo – Athens – Amsterdam – Rotterdam – Kyoto – Tokyo – San Francisco – Boston – Exeter – New Haven – New York – Entebbe – Genoa

Itinerary 2: Paris – Ronchamp – Basel – Bern – Weil am Rhein – Santander – London – Sydney – Noumea – Los Angeles – San Diego – Houston – Dallas – Fort Worth New York – Entebbe – Genoa

The 2019 edition of the RPWT has been expanded to offer six young people, selected from six European universities, a unique apprenticeship and training opportunity: a trip around the world to discover the architecture of Renzo Piano and other famous architects.
The Renzo Piano Foundation has involved five international institutions. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations, and the Fundación Botín, a historic Spanish foundation, confirmed their support for the second consecutive year and joined the project alongside Selvaag Gruppen, a Norwegian real estate developer and operator, the Vitra Design Foundation, responsible for the creation and growth of the well-known design museum in Weil am Rhein, and Taschen Publications, one of the most renowned publishers of art and architecture books.
ProviaggiArchitettura and Habitat 2020 have also collaborated on the project.

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RPWT 03 a cura di Lorenzo Ciccarelli

2018

Winners: Ioanna Mitropoulou, Ricardo Fernandez Gonzalez, Thomas Pepino

Universities: National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of Padua.

Period: June 16, 2018 – July 25, 2018

Itinerary: Athens – Santander – Paris – Berlin – Oslo – Sydney – Nouméa – Houston – Dallas – Fort Worth – Chicago – Boston – New York – London – Genoa.

Following the success of the first edition of the Renzo Piano World Tour, thanks to the involvement of the Stavros Niarchos and Botín foundations and the support of ProViaggiArchitettura and Habitat 2020, the competition has been consolidated, giving three winners the opportunity to benefit from the prize.
Graduates from the Universities of Padua, Madrid, and Athens were selected on the basis of their portfolios, CVs, travel experience abroad, and knowledge of English, in keeping with the theme “The art of construction: the importance of structural details.”

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RPWT 02 di Thomas Pepino

2017

Winners: Silvia Pellizzari

University: University of Padua

Period: : May 1, 2017 – July 19, 2017

Itinerary: Trento – Bern – Basel – Ronchamp – Paris – New York – Boston – Dallas – Fort Worth – Houston – San Francisco – Los Angeles – Osaka – Tokyo – Athens – London – Genoa.

The first edition of the competition established by the Renzo Piano Foundation, in collaboration with the cultural association HABITAT2020 and ProViaggiArchitettura, focused on the theme of the regeneration of peripheral areas of Italy, was won by “A Cohousing Project for Sandono, Massanzago” by engineer Silvia Pellizzari. The winner is offered the opportunity to travel around the world for forty days, discovering some of the iconic projects of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

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RPWT 01 di Silvia Pellizzari

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