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Publication year: 2023
Number of pages: 240
ISBN: 9780711288966
Publishing: Quarto
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Cover: Hardcover
Format: 260 x 285 mm
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 projects: 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 As well as giving unique insights into the creative process of Piano himself, the book includes numerous unpublished designs and photographs.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.
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.
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