RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP 1989-2010

Description

a+u last published a special issue on Renzo Piano and his Building Workshop in 1989, covering their exciting early works. This new monograph continues from there, exploring the last 20 years of his enduring practice where technology, craft, art, and an inherent eco-consciousness are successfully synergized into a sensible yet intriguing architecture.
Here, Piano’s built works are presented through five environmental-technological themes that recur in his architecture: “Daylighting”, “Greenscapes”, “Climatic Responsiveness”, “Renovation” and “Tectonics”. There is a particular focus on detailed drawings, paired with exquisite photographs, to help readers better understand and learn from Piano’s thinking and design sensibilities. The 28 featured works span from 1989 till today, and also includes projects in progress such as the London Bridge Tower.

CONTENTS

Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Jonathan Glancey: Interview with Renzo Piano: “Sense and Sustainability”

Completed Works

Daylighting

• Beyeler Foundation Museum
• The Nasher Sculpture Center
• High Museum of Art Expansion
• LACMA Expansion, Phase I – Broad Contemporary Art Museum
• The Art Institute of Chicago – The Modern Wing

Greenscapes

• Auditorium “Parco della Musica”
• Zentrum Paul Klee
• California Academy of Sciences

Climatic Responsiveness

• Kansai International Airport Passenger Terminal Building
• Cultural Center Jean-Marie Tjibaou
• Aurora Place
• The New York Times Building

Renovation

• Rehabilitation of the Genoa Old Harbor and the Genoa Waterfront Project
• Potsdamer Platz Reconstruction
• Niccolò Paganini Auditorium
• The Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion

Tectonics

• Maison Hermès
• Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church

Kenneth Frampton: Essay: “Prometheus Unbound: The Work of RPBW”

Projects in Progress

• Saint Giles Court Mixed-Use Development
• London Bridge Tower
• Development Plan for the Ex-Michelin Area
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Renovation and Expansion
• Tjuvholmen Icon Complex
• Poor Clare Monastery
• Harvard Art Museum, Renovation and Expansion
• Manhattanville Campus, Columbia University
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Renzo Piano: Pritzker Prize Acceptance Speech: “In Praise of Construction” 

Selection of Works 1967–2010
Credits and Data
Biography and Firm Profile

224 pages, color ills / 22 x 30 cm / Japanese, English