On Tour with Renzo Piano [Hardcover]

Renzo Piano (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2004

A personal tour through some of the key buildings by the Renzo Piano Workshop. Each project is introduced with text by Renzo Piano himself and colour photographs take the reader on a visual guide around each building. This book features 25 built projects presented chronologically, starting from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and including the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, the Potsdamer Platz masterplan in Berlin and the Renzo Piano Workshop in Genoa. The book will be published in English, French, German and Italian. 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.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Phaidon Press; First Edition edition (December 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714843415
• ISBN-13: 978-0714843414
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,203,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Small album with photos only, December 13, 2004

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Eugene Tenenbaum "reluctant reader" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Tour with Renzo Piano (Hardcover)

This small album at only 6.5 x 6.5 inches (16.5 x 16.5 cm) contains almost exclusively photos, but good ones. After book's Introduction, each of 22 main Piano's project is headed by a title page with a very simple, hand drawn sketch or two, followed by a page of text, and only full page or double page photos thereafter. At the end of book, there are a few pages with office personnel list, project credits, selected bibliography, prizes, etc., and small B&W photos of coworkers. This is a non-technical book without plans, sections, etc.