(H/B) PIANO

Παρουσίαση

While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form. Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that "turned the architecture world upside down." Since then, he has continued to craft many high-profile cultural spaces, including the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion in New York; and, most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, an asymmetric nine-story structure in Manhattan's Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor galleries.
In New York and London, the Renzo touch has also transformed the skyline with the towers of the New York Times Building and the Shard, the tallest building in the European Union. This essential introduction travels from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the "inside-out" Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, New Caledonia, this is a thrilling journey through the beauty of architecture, where, in Piano's own words, "each time, it is like life starting all over again." (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
Centre Georges Pompidou
Menil Collection
Redevelopment of the Old Harbor of Genoa
Lingotto Factory Conversion
Kansai International Airport Terminal
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Banca Popolare di Lodi
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center
Postdamer Platz Reconstruction
Beyeler Foundation
Niccolo Paganini Auditorium
Maison Hermes
Parco della Musica Auditorium
Aurora Place
Nasher Sculpture Center
Zentrum Paul Klee
High Museum of Art Expansion
Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion
The New York Times Building
California Academy of Sciences Renovation and Expansion
Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago
Central Saint Giles Mixed-Use Development
Los Angeles County Museum (BCAM and the Resnick Pavilion)
London Bridge Tower
Prizes / Life and Work
Collaborators
World Map
Bibliography / Credits / The Author