PIANO

Description

“The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries.” Such was the description of Renzo Piano given by the Pritzker Prize jury citation as they bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998. Whereas some architects have a signature style, what sets Piano apart is that he seeks simply to apply a coherent set of ideas to new projects in extraordinarily different ways. “One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again,” Piano says. “Like a movie director doing a love story, a Western, or a murder mystery, a new world confronts an architect with each project.” This explains why it takes more than a superficial glance to recognize Piano’s fingerprints on such varied projects as the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kansai Airport in Osaka, Japan, the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Nouméa, New Caledonia, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, The New York Times Building in New York, and his most recent structure, the London Bridge Tower, which will be upon completion the tallest building in Western Europe.

CONTENTS

• Centre Georges Pombidou
• Menil Collection
• Redevelopment of the Old Harbour of Genoa
• Lingotto Factory Conversion
• Kansai International Airport Terminal
• Renzo Piano Building Workshop
• Banca Popolare di Lodi
• Jean Marie Tjibau Cultural Center
• Potsdamer Platz Reconstruction
• Beyeler Foundation
• Niccolò Paganini Auditorium
• Maison Hermès
• Parco della Musica Auditorium
• Aurora Place
• Nasher Sculpture Center
• Zentrum Paul Klee
• High Museum Art Expansion
• Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion
• The New York Times Building
• California Accademy of Sciences Renovation and Expansion
• Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Central Saint Giles Mixed-Use Development
• Los Angeles Country Museum (BCAM and the Resncik Pavilion)
• London Bridge Tower

96 pages, color ills / 18,5 x 23 cm / English