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The materials are mostly unpublished, and Renzo Piano comments on
them with sketches made for this special publication. The story of
the project evolves from the origins to the first conceptual ideas,
revealing the hard research process through sketches, drawings,
study and presentation models, but also scientific experiments on
light, sound and materials, to finally arrive to the construction
site, the architecture built and the space lived. Few brief comment
captions and some phrases by Renzo Piano bring a deeper
understanding of the project stages, extracted from the story of
the architect's adventure. A text at the end of the book provides
the reader with a "behind the scene" view, from the relationship
with the curators and the client to the choice of the materials, to
the research of the most suitable solution for that museum and the
specific context in which it was build. A conception of the museum
that starts from the work of art to arrive at the architectural
project. A journey that takes the reader through time and space
during its realisation.
From the first idea to the opening day, the project is followed
step by step through a long picture-report. Phrases by Renzo Piano
serve as comments for the pictures and guide the reader though this
journey. The main text, that can be found at the end of the book,
is the testimony of Renzo Piano himself, recorded for this special
occasion. Moreover, some sketches have been made especially for
this book. The choice not to use any caption for the pictures, but
to leave Renzo Piano's voice as a guide for the reader, has the aim
to transmit the sense of gradual discovery that is experienced when
entering the museum. Our objective is to create a collection of
"unique" books, that allow the reader to share with us at every
stage of the project, this extraordinary adventure that is
"building".
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. It becomes a sort of travel journal,
immediate and powerful. The story of Renzo Piano and the
testimonials of scientists and engineers have been recorded and
faithfully transcribed, so that the reader can live the adventure
of this project, accompanied by the voice of the protagonists. A
text at the end of the book provides the reader with a "behind the
scene" view, from the relationship with the scientists to the
choice of the materials, to the research of the most suitable
solutions for that museum and the specific context in which it was
built. It is a story of a museum of sciences which becomes itself
the subject of naturalistic studies, the container and the content;
according to Renzo's opinion "this century has led to the awareness
of the fragility of the Earth, and it is up to us architects, here
and now, to find a new language that celebrates sustainability".
The research that has been done for this project led to the
conquest of a Platinum level in LEED certification (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design).
Designed by Le Corbusier, the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut draws
thousands of visitors each year. Renzo Piano's new project includes
three main elements: the gatehouse, the monastery and the
landscape. Deep in the lush vegetation, the monastery is a place
"of silence, prayer, peace and joy", where everything contributes
to spiritual contemplation. Most of the material used in this book
has not been previously published, and has been made available
through the constant and detailed work of cataloguing and
classifying the Foundation's archives. The history of this project
will be shown through Renzo Piano's personal notes and memories,
starting with his first visit to the site to the opening on
September 2011
"For those who love boats, architecture and original enquiring
minds, this book is a dream. " -Jeremy Irons World-famous architect
Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer
day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many explorers before
them: to find Atlantis (in Italian, Atlantide). Atlantis is the
perfect city, built to harbour a perfect society. This is its true
beauty, precious and elusive. Renzo Piano, a man who can not only
measure land at a glance but also the sea's infinite geometry,
returns to the places where he has erected his works, mosaic pieces
in the infinite, necessary quest for perfection. With his son he
sails across the Pacific, along the banks of the Thames and the
Seine, reaching as far as Athens, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
and Osaka Bay. In search of beauty, he finds the imperfections that
every building project carries within it. And so, all that remains
is to sail on.
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Folon - The Sculptures (Hardcover)
Jean-Michel Folon, Renzo Piano, Stephanie Angelroth, Marilena Pasquali, Allison Michel, …
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The extraordinary sculptures of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon
The first half of Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon's (1934-2005)
career was devoted to posters, illustrations, and television
animations that brought him international acclaim for their
diversity and virtuosity; his illustrations appeared in magazines
including The New Yorker, Fortune, and Esquire. In the 1990s, he
pivoted to sculpture, focusing on statuary and working with both
direct carving and modeling, which he then translated to bronze or
stone. This is the first publication to explore the entirety of
Folon's sculptural work. Drawing inspiration from the Cyclades, the
Etruscans, from African masks and Indian totems, Folon's sculptures
are characterized by their frontality and corporality. Distributed
for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Villers-la-Ville, Brussels
(October 24, 2020-February 21, 2021)
This project is also the exploration of "another world", seemingly
remote: the Pacific and the culture of ephemeral, the encounter
with the great Kanak people and his history suspended between past
and future. An adventure that ends with the discovery of an
unsuspected affinity: "I'm more Kanak than you are", Renzo Piano
will say. Just like the previous monographs, the presented material
is unpublished, retrieved thanks to the research and classification
in the archives of the Renzo Piano Foundation, and commentated with
sketches, notes and memories of Renzo Piano. It becomes a sort of
travel journal, intimate and powerful. The stories of Renzo Piano,
Marie-Claude Tjibaou, Alban Bensa and Glenn Murcutt were recorded
and faithfully transcribed, so that the reader can live the
adventure of this project, accompanied by the voice of the
protagonists.
Designed by Le Corbusier, the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut draws
thousands of visitors each year. Renzo Piano's new project includes
three main elements: the gatehouse, the monastery and the
landscape.Deep in the lush vegetation, the monastery is a place "of
silence, prayer, peace and joy", where everything contributes to
spiritual contemplation.Most of the material used in this book has
not been previously published, and has been made available through
the constant and detailed work of cataloguing and classifying the
Foundation's archives. The history of this project will be shown
through Renzo Piano's personal notes and memories, starting with
his first visit to the site to the opening on September 2011
Renzo Piano, winner of the 1998 Pritzker Prize, is an architect
whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always
challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be so
excitingly innovative as to capture the imagination of his
admirers. One of the very few architects across the world 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 Renzo Piano
Workshop with Piano himself. Featuring approximately twenty-five
built projects, Renzo Piano introduces each building through his
own 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
Berlin's Potsdamer Platz masterplan, to the acclaimed Beyeler
Foundation in Basel and the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in
New Caledonia. The ethos of Renzo Piano Building Workshop is
characterized by 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. On Tour with Renzo Piano
illuminates this with energy and meticulous presentation.
London Bridge Tower, also known as the "Shard", was completed in
July 2012. With his 306m height and 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 has become a landmark in
thecity of London.A second edition of the book, edited in 2016,
includes also the News Building, a 17-storey office block, which
forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development, the rebuilding
of London Bridge bus station and the creation of a new public
piazza
Renzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of
the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a
building that "turned the architecture world upside down." Since
then, he has continued to craft such iconic cultural spaces as the
Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago and, more recently, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, an asymmetric nine-story structure
in Manhattan's Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor
galleries. In London, the Piano touch has also transformed the
skyline with the Shard. At the age of 84, the Italian maestro
retains all of his enthusiasm and kindness-and his recent roster is
more impressive than ever. As he confided to the author, "I think
at a certain age, one can discover that there is what the French
call the 'fil rouge,' a kind of red thread that relates one
building to another over time. In my case, I believe it is about
lightness and the art of building." From freshly built museums in
Athens and Santander; ongoing works in Lisbon, London, Toronto, and
Geneva; to such humanitarian projects as the Emergency Children's
Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda, and the Children's Hospice in
Bologna, Italy, Piano's career is a thrilling journey through the
beauty and very essence of architecture. Based on the massive XXL
monograph, this widely updated edition brings the architect's
definitive career overview to an accessible format and is
illustrated by photographs, sketches, and plans.
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.
The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown
Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the
project will substantially enlarge the Whitney's exhibition and
programming space. Clad in pale blue- grey enamel steel panels, the
new, eight-storey building is powerfully asymmetrical, with the
bulk of the full-height museum to the west, Hudson-side, with tiers
of lighter terraces and glazed walkways stepping down to the High
Line, embracing it into the project. The Museum is entered via a
dramatically cantilevered plaza, or "largo", a public space that
serves as a kind of decompression chamber between street and
museum, a shared space, with views to the Hudson and the High Line
entrance just a few steps away. Accessed from the "largo", the main
entrance lobby also serves as a public gallery - nearly a thousand
square feet (100 sq. Meters) of free-entry exhibition space.Level
three houses a 170-retractible seat theatre with double-height
views over the Hudson River, along with technical spaces and
offices. Some 4 650 sq. Meters of gallery space is distributed over
levels five, six, seven and eight, the fifth level boasting a 1670
sq. Meters, column-free gallery - making it the largest open-plan
museum gallery in New York City. A text at the end of the book
provides the reader with a "behind the scene" view. A conception of
the museum that starts from the work of art to arrive at the
architectural project. A journey that takes the reader through time
and space during its realisation.
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Centre Pompidou (Paperback)
Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers
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This is the ninth volume in the series of monographs on the
important works of the architect Renzo Piano, albeit that he worked
in cooperation with Richard Rogers on this extraordinary building,
The `Beaubourg` as many people know it, or the Centre Georges
Pompidou, as it is known officially. As with the other volumes in
the series, the book is drawn up directly from the archives of the
Renzo P:iano Building Workshop, and uses previously unpublished
material. The history of the project is presented chronologically,
using sketches and notes, from the first inspection of the site to
the official opening of the building The stories of Renzo Piano and
Richard Rogers as they recall working together, are meticulously
reproduced in their own words. Thus the book is a true journal,
that takes the reader through the entire process of the creation of
this extraordinary architectural adventure. `To me it`s still the
`` Beaubourg`. Even today, forty years on I find it hard to call it
the Centre Georges Pompidou. Yet is was President Pompidou who made
the project possible, defended it and ensured its completion after
his death in 1974.... After the opening of Centre Pompidou, which
took place 40 years ago, we publish this book as a testimony of the
adventure of Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Happy birthday,
Beaubourg`.
This is the story of the replacement for the Morandi Bridge in
Genoa which collapsed depositing a number of drivers to their
deaths a couple years ago. "Building this bridge was like building
a cathedral. I imagined it, but it took it shape only when it
became a choral work, thanks to the efforts of over a thousand
people. It was the most beautifulconstruction site I have ever had
in all my life. Simply extraordinary". With these words Renzo
Piano, on the morning of August 3rd 2020, inaugurated the Genoa San
Giorgio Bridge. A complex project, born from a tragedy, in a place
where "we are all lost ourselves,two years ago, and here we find
ourselves again today ". A professional adventure, but above all
human, unforgettable. This volume, edited and published by the
Renzo Piano Foundation within the monographic series dedicated to
Renzo Piano's iconic projects, tells the entire path in images,
from the demolition of the Morandi Bridge to today. The history of
the project is chronologically reconstructed through more than 100
drawings, unpublished sketches, models and prototypes, annotations,
and construction site photos. In this way the entire process is
well documented, including the different design phases, the
proposals then modified or abandoned in the final project and
second thoughts. Renzo Piano's story especially collected in July
2020, a few weeks after the opening of the bridge, was recorded and
faithfully transcribed in the volume. This book thus becomes a
travel notebook that accompanies the reader in every phase of that
extraordinary adventure that is the profession of designing and
making buildings. Because "building is the opposite of destroying,
it is creating."
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