Renzo Piano

La Désobéissance de l'architecte est, par le biais d'une conversation avec Renzo Cassigoli, une biographie de Renzo Piano qui, de Gênes, nous mène au Centre Georges-Pompidou, à Paris, de la Postdamer Platz de Berlin à l'auditorium de Rome, du centre culturel Djibaou, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, au musée de Sarajevo, mais c'est aussi le manifeste d'un créateur enthousiaste, frondeur et réaliste, qui poursuit une véritable réflexion sociale sur les villes et les banlieues, enrichie d'une pensée éthique et esthétique sur le sens que nous entendons donner à nos vies.

conversation avec Renzo Cassigoli

La désobéissance de l'architecte

Carlo Piano

A Journey in Search of Beauty

Atlantis

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Architecture & music

London Bridge Tower, also known as the "Shard", was completed in July 2012, though it is not open to public yet. With its 306 m height, the Shard is Europe's tallest building. Conceived and implemented as a vertical town, the tower is a shimmering, lively presence in London's skyline. The volume is an account of the story of this astonishing project, from its first design hypothesis and inception, to the amazing building site and the final grand opening. The volume presents a wide and exclusive choice of Renzo Piano's sketches, prospects, plans and sections of the building, working models, prototypes and photos from the site, along with direct accounts of those who took part in this extraordinary adventure. A text by Renzo Piano in first person tells the "behind the scene" story of a building that is already a landmark in the city of London. Much of the book is unpublished material found through the work of cataloguing and classifying which belongs to the Renzo Piano Foundation. The story of the project evolves from the first visit to the site at the inauguration, through sketches, drawings, models, notes and memories of Renzo Piano.

London Bridge Tower

The Shard

The Shard - London Bridge Quarter

Victoria Newhouse

Creating space for the display of works of art has intrigued Renzo Piano throughout his thirty-five years of architectural practice. Today he is acknowledged the pre-eminent designer in this field, entrusted with the collections of the most distinguished art institutions in the world. Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen museum projects, beginning with the revolutionary Pompidou Center in Paris and continuing to the most current designs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo. Featured are the Menil Collection in Houston, the Beyeler Foundation on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Lush color photographs and handsome presentation drawings and plans convey the form and detail of these extraordinary buildings. Complementing the visual presentation is an essay by Victoria Newhouse, which surveys Piano's museum work and places it in a historical context. In particular, she focuses on the key elements of Piano's aesthetic: natural light, transparency, and the piazza or gathering space. All were introduced at the Pompidou Center and continue to inform the designs.

Renzo Piano Museums

Centro Botín. Santander. Ediz. italiana e inglese

Andrea Rolando

The Intesa Sanpaolo Skyscraper. Turin

The Italian master explains why he always insists on exhaustive research and discusses ecological issues such as roof energy accumulation capacity. His knowledge of the structural strengths of various natural fibers and thermal insulation goes hand in hand with his scheme of avoiding non-renewable energy sources. Intelligent buildings, methods of recycling, understanding of topography all fit into the overall architectural design. The most advanced building systems are also inexpensive in forming ecological spaces.

Arquitecturas Sostenibles

Renzo Piano is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. One of the few architects to be intimately involved in each stage of a building's development, from its concept and masterplan to its construction and detailing, Renzo's insights into his own projects are revealing and insightful. Each new design never fails to be innovative and exciting. On Tour with Renzo Piano offers the rare opportunity to join Piano himself on a journey around 22 of his key buildings, each presented through personal text and a photographic tour, which takes the reader from the external to the internal and to the detail. The selection includes the impressive Centre Georges Pompidou, the Beyeler Foundation and Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center. Also presenting the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, this book offers an intimate guide to the work of one of the most respected and visionary architects of our time.

On Tour with Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano (Genoa, 1937) studied architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan. Since winning the competition to design the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1971) along with Richard Rogers, Piano has become a prominent figure on the international architectural scene, with more works constructed outside Italy than in his own country. Piano brings a similar approach to both the small and the large scale. He has directed projects of very varying sizes: small buildings like the travelling IBN Pavilion and the Brancusi Museum; and great megastructures like Kansai's International Airport Terminal built on a man-made island in the Bay of Tokyo, and the remodeling of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz where work is scheduled to be completed in 2002.

Logbook

Peter Buchanan

The second volume of a set of three which studies the work of architect Renzo Piano. This book looks at Piano's working method, followed by a presentation of some of his most significant buildings and projects from 1987 to 1993.

Complete Works

Jean Michel Folon

Marilena Pasquali

Stephanie Angelroth

Allison Michel

Marie Resseler

Isabelle Douillet-de Pange

The extraordinary sculptures of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon

The Sculpture

Folon

Werner Blaser

Museum Beyeler

Pierre Restany

Susumu Shingu

Joseph Giovannini

Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to make it move or make sound, and he began using more sophisticated materials for outdoor works. By the time of Expo '70 in Osaka, Shingu had been commissioned to create a piece for the plaza. It contained many of the elements he would use later: parts of it were moved by both wind and water, in some ways harnessing their power but also buffeted by it. His work walks the fine line between complementing nature and being an integral part of it. The pieces, though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt nature's rhythms in their movement. Shingu's sculpture is found around the world, from Japan to France, Italy, and the United States. In addition to creating sculptures, he has written and illustrated several children's books and designed several theater pieces that integrate his sculptures and installations with dramatic stories. All of these endeavors are collected here — along with the artist's comments on many of the sculptures, essays by Pierre Restany and Renzo Piano, and an interview with Joseph Giovannini — in a monograph that provides a complete portrait of Shingu's diverse career.

Message from Nature

Shingu

Lia Piano

Beyeler. Fondation Beyeler. Ediz. francese e tedesca

Kenneth Frampton

The most up-to-date complete illustrated account of the work of one of the world's most influential architects, in his own words

Renzo Piano - The Complete Logbook, 1966-2016

Renzo Piano

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