Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works : Vol 2 - Softcover

Buchanan, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714838993 ISBN 13: 9780714838991

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1999

Synopsis

This is the second of five authoritative and stylish volumes on one of the world's greatest contemporary architects, written by one of today's most important critics. This tome on Renzo Piano (b.1937) provides an enlightening study of his underlying approach to architecture and how this influences his technique, followed by a detailed presentation of the range of his buildings and projects from the period 1987 to 1993.

In an interview recorded especially for this book, Piano talks about his early career as a designer, his attitude towards technology and his continuing evolution of what Peter Buchanan has called a natural architecture. Many of the completed buildings featured in this volume are located in and around Piano's home town of Genoa: from the soaring structures associated with the 1992 Expo in the old docks, to the ground-hugging form of his own laboratory-workshop in Vesima.

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Review:

"Buchanan provides so much information and insight on his subject that this book seems unique."―Architectural Record

Synopsis:

This second volume on Renzo Piano provides a study of the architect's working method, followed by a presentation of his building projects from 1987-1993. In an interview with the author, Piano discusses his early career, his attitude toward technology and his continuing evolution of what the author has termed a "natural architecture". Many of the completed buildings featured in the book are located in and around Piano's home town of Genoa, from the structures associated with the 1992 Expo in the old docks to the ground-hugging form of his own laboratory in Vesima.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0714838993
• ISBN 13: 9780714838991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240