On Tour with Renzo Piano

Description

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.

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.

'one of the greatest architects working today.' Glasgow Herald, 11 December 2004 ' - reveals much about the architect's creative process.' Blueprint, January 2005 'a rare opportunity to experience the key buildings - with Renzo Piano himself.' Art Journal www.artjournal.co.uk '[a] small delight' Financial Times, December 2005