Renzo Piano, winner of the 1998 Pritzker Prize 1998, is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be innovative and exciting and to capture the imagination of his admirers. 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. In this new publication, the reader is offered the rare opportunity to experience the key buildings of the Workshop with Renzo Piano himself. Featuring approximately 25 built projects, Renzo Piano introduces each building through personal text, followed by a photographic guide which takes the reader from the external to the internal of each project on a frame by frame tour. Projects featured range from urban works such as the Potsdamer Platz masterplan, to the acclaimed Beyeler Foundation and the Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop is characterized by its sensitivity to site and local tradition as well as by its combination of traditional materials and techniques with those from the cutting edge of technology.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN: 9780714843414
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 336
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 10/11/2004
Año de edición: 2004
Plaza de edición: London
Alto: 16.0 cm
Ancho: 16.0 cm
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Escrito por RENZO PIANO
Renzo Piano (nacido en Italia en 1937) estudió en la Universidad de Florencia y en el Instituto Politécnico de Milán. Ganador de la Medalla de Oro RIBA en 1989 y del Premio Pritzker en 1998, los proyectos más emblemáticos de Piano incluyen el Centro Georges Pompidou en París, el Shard en Londres y el Whitney Museum of American Art en la ciudad de Nueva York. Tiene sus oficinas principales en su Génova natal y en París.