Renzo Picasso
Renzo Picasso (1880–1975) was an Italian architect, engineer, and urban planner and designer.

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.

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.

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

Projects 
Piazza De Ferrari, Genova, 1909
New city, New Genova, 1913, Renzo Picasso

Bibliography 

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"
Luigi Berio, Viaggio in Liguria n°2: Renzo Picasso, FRCS Liguria, 2010

References

External links 
 Manfredi Beninati,Renzo Picasso, Archivio Flavio Beninati, 2012
 Renzo Picasso Homepage

Architects from Genoa
Engineers from Genoa
Urban designers
1880 births
1975 deaths