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Renzo Piano is one of the world’s greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Written and created in collaboration with the Piano Foundation in Genoa, this richly illustrated volume covers the early work as well as the most recent designs, making a complete survey of his career to date. Starting with his beginnings with the Pompidou Centre in the 1970s (in collaboration with Richard Rogers) the story continues up to construction of one of his latest works, a spectacular new bridge in Genoa in 2020.
The book explores all of the studio’s main achievements: the public spaces and museums, airports, theatres, and libraries. As well as giving unique insights into the creative process of Piano himself, the book includes numerous unpublished designs and photographs. In the process the book reveals Piano’s unique way of handling light and space, as well as his particular attention to the social implications of the profession of architect and the relationship of buildings to their urban environment and landscape.
Renzo Piano
by Ciccarelli, LorenzoFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2023-10-24
Publisher(s): Frances Lincoln
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Author Biography
Lorenzo Ciccarelli, architect, is a researcher in the History of Architecture at the University of Florence and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Renzo Piano Foundation. In the last eight years he has been regularly consulting the archives of the Renzo Piano Foundation and the RPBW offices in Genoa and Paris, and on various occasions, interviewing Renzo Piano, his collaborators and studio Partners.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PREHISTORY
THE POMPIDOU CENTRE: A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
THE WILDERNESS YEARS
TURNING POINT: THE MENIL COLLECTION
SCALING UP: OSAKA AND BERLIN
BUILDING AROUND AN EMPTY SPACE
PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE: RECENT ACTIVITIES
END MATTER
PREHISTORY
THE POMPIDOU CENTRE: A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
THE WILDERNESS YEARS
TURNING POINT: THE MENIL COLLECTION
SCALING UP: OSAKA AND BERLIN
BUILDING AROUND AN EMPTY SPACE
PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE: RECENT ACTIVITIES
END MATTER
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