Piano brings impressive experience and credentials to the undertaking, and the museums he has built in various parts of the world are celebrated for their deft handling of forms and materials,
expressive use of natural light, and sensitivity to their surroundings.
The spectacular
use of natural light and landscape in European painting, particularly the work
of the great English masters Gainsborough, Turner and Constable, was invoked in the creation
of this series
of expressive cosmic visions.