Présentation de l'éditeur :
Une présentation unique des principaux bâtiments de Renzo Piano par l'architecte en personne. Un commentaire personnel ainsi que 200 photographies en couleur accompagnent le lecteur pas à pas, depuis l'extérieur vers l'intérieur de chaque construction. Présente 25 réalisations, dont le Centre Georges-Pompidou à Paris, la Fondation Beyeler de Bâle et le Centre culturel Jean-Marie-Tjibaou en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Au moment même de la parution de cet ouvrage, le Renzo Piano Workshop termine de nombreux bâtiments et projets dans le monde entier.
Renzo Piano, architecte primé et réputé, a étudié à Paris et à Gênes. Il a donné des conférences à Columbia University of Pennsylvania, à l'Ecole d'architecture d'Oslo, à Central London Polytechnic et à l'Architectural Association de Londres.
Renzo Piano – winner of the 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.
Renzo Piano is an award-winning and critically acclaimed architect, with Building Workshops in Paris and Genoa. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Oslo School of Architecture, the Central London Polytechnic and the Architectural Association in London.
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