Renzo Piano Building Workshop - Complete Works: Volume 1
Author(s): Peter Buchanan
Renzo Piano (b.1937) is one of the world's greatest living architects. He has made his name over the last 20 years as a provocative and inventive designer, first as co-creator of the Pompidou in Paris, with Richard Rogers, and then gradually with projects as diverse as the gallery for the De Menil Collection in the United States, the Bari Sports Stadium in Italy and the Kansai Airport International Terminal in Japan. The practice of Building Workshop practice 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. This first volume shows key buildings and projects from Piano's earlier career, as well as from the Building Workshop, to examine closely the evolution of his work. Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works, Volume 1 provides an illuminating study of Piano's working method, his early mentors and his architectural development, followed by an in-depth presentation of a selection of his most significant buildings and projects.
Product Information
Peter Buchanan was formerly Deputy Editor of Architectural Review and is now a freelance writer, lecturer and critic as well as an architect.
A natural architecture: Il Rigo Housing, Corciano; Kansai International Airport Terminal. Spirit of the workshop: early influences; Genoa office-workshop; QB Housing, Genoa. Piano practices: reinforced polyester space frame; woodwork shop, Genoa; mobile structure for sulphur extraction; studio piano; tensile steel and reinforced-polyester structure; Piano and Rogers; BB Italia Offices, Como; shell structural system for the 14th Milan Triennale; Italian Industry Pavilion. Expo 1970; free-plan houses, Cusago; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Piano and Rice Associates; Fiat VSS experimental car; "flying carpet" basic vehicle; "the open site"; UNESCO Neighbourhood Workshop, Otranto. Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Aluminium Research Institute, Novara; Calder Retrospective; Prometeo opera, setting for; IBM Trevalling Pavilion; Schlumberger renovation, Paris; IBM Ladybird Pavilion; Lowara Offices, Montecchio Maggiore; De Menil Collection Gallery, Houston; Contemporary Art Museum, Newport harbour; Cy Twombly Pavilion, Houston; Rhodes Moat Development; Valletta City Gate; Palladio Basilica Rehabilitation, Vincenza; San Nicola Stadium, Bari; European Synchroton Radiation Facility, Grenoble; Sistiana Tourist Resort, Trieste; IRCAM Extension, Paris; Rue de Meaux Housing, Paris.
General Fields
- :
- : Phaidon Press Ltd
- : Phaidon Press Ltd
- : 1.442
- : 01 June 1999
- : 291mm X 252mm X 29mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Peter Buchanan
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 720.92
- : 240
