Renzo Piano Building Workshop : complete works

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Renzo Piano Building Workshop : complete works

Peter Buchanan

Phaidon, 1993-

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3
  • v. 4
  • v. 5

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780714828091

Description

Renzo Piano is considered to be one of the world's greatest living architects. He has made his name over the last twenty years as a provocative and inventive designer, first as co-author, with Richard Rogers and Peter Rice, of the Centre Pompidou in France and then gradually with projects as diverse as the gallery for the de Menil collection in the USA, the Bari Sports Stadium in Italy and the Kansai Airport passenger terminal in Japan. This volume provides a study of Piano's working method, his early mentors and his architectural development, followed by a presentation of some of his most significant buildings and projects.

Table of Contents

  • Analytical essay
  • working method
  • background and mentors
  • previous Piano practices
  • case studies on buildings and projects
  • biographical notes
  • staff lists
  • project credits.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780714828596

Description

Renzo Piano is considered to be one of the world's greatest living architects. He has made his name over the last twenty years as a provocative and inventive designer, first as co-author, with Richard Rogers and Peter Rice, of the Centre Pompidou in France and then gradually with projects as diverse as the gallery for the de Menil collection in the USA, the Bari Sports Stadium in Italy and the Kansai Airport passenger terminal in Japan. This volume provides a study of Piano's working method, followed by a presentation of some of his most significant buildings and projects from the period 1987 to 1993.

Table of Contents

  • New dimension of the organic - the continuing evolution of a natural architecture
  • completed buildings 1987-93 - Bercy Charenton Shopping Centre, Paris, Genoa Metro Stations
  • Thomson Optronics Factory
  • Vesima Laboratory. - workshop, Genoa
  • Columbus International Exposition, Genoa, Masterplanning, 11 Bigo, Aquarium, Cotton Warehouse, Service Spirie and offices, Bonded Warehouse, Molo Quarter, Axis of Services
  • Credito Industriale Sardo, projects - Lingotto Factory Renovation, Turin - progress report
  • Jean-Marie Tjibau Cultural Centre, Noumea - charting in depth the evolution of an on-going project
  • Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church
  • Beyeler Collection Galery, Basle
  • National Museum of Science and Technology, Amsterdam
  • Potsdanunerstrasse Masterplan, Berlin
  • Coda: construction report on Kansai Airport Terminal, Osaka.
Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780714835433

Description

This text is the third in a series of volumes on Renzo Piano, one of the most internationally acclaimed architects of contemporary times. It closes with the completion of Piano's most monumental and extraordinary work, Kansai airport. An introductory essay, "From Pompidou to Kansai", reviews the full scope of his career. The most recent Renzo Piano Building Workshop projects are also included. These are described and illustrated with photographs and drawings which chart their development through design and construction stages, to completion. The last section of the book is dedicated exclusively to Kansai, describing the background to its design and construction, as well as a "walkthrough" that enables the reader to experience the building in a direct way.

Table of Contents

  • From Pompidou to Kansai
  • Lingotto factory renovation
  • Tate Gallery at Bankside
  • Cy Twombly Pavilion
  • Mercedez Benz Design Centre
  • Cite Internationale, Lyon
  • Rome Auditoria
  • L'Ille Seguin and Le Bas Meudon
  • Le Grande Stade
  • Saitama Arena
  • introduction to Kansai airport
  • background and design development of Kansai airport
  • elements of the final design of Kansai airport
  • walkthrough Kansai airport.
Volume

v. 4 ISBN 9780714839318

Description

As Peter Buchanan has shown in the first three volumes of Renzo Piano's (b.1937) complete works, Piano follows no fashions of form or theory, nor is he limited to a personal idiom. Instead he concerns himself with the specifics and potential of a particular situation and moment, meeting the challenges of the programme, pushing the limits of technology, but always responding sensitively to the topography or urban fabric of the building's site. This fourth volume on Renzo Piano provides an illuminating study of the architect's working method, in particular his regard for context, followed by a presentation of his projects from 1989 to 2000. These range from urban works such as the Potsdamer Platz masterplan in Berlin, a science museum in Amsterdam and high-rise towers in Rotterdam and Sydney, to the acclaimed Beyeler Foundation, and the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia, which exemplifies the architect's sensitivity to site and local tradition, combining traditional materials and techniques with those from the cutting edge of technology.

Table of Contents

  • Gesturing to context
  • Ushibuka Bridge
  • Kumamoto
  • Brancusi Studio, Paris
  • newMetropolis, Amsterdam
  • Beyeler Foundation, Basel
  • JM Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea
  • Ferrari Wind Tunnel, Modena
  • Mercedes-Benz Design Centre, Sindelfingen
  • Banca Popolare di Lodi, Milan
  • Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
  • Nola Commercial Centre, Milan
  • KNP-Tower, Rotterdam
  • 88 Philip Street and Macquarie Apartments, Sydney.
Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780714844725

Description

Volume Five is the next in the successful Renzo Piano Building Workshop series. This latest publication includes key projects from around the world, such as the Nasher Collection in Dallas, USA, and features major finished buildings such as Padre Pio Church, Italy, as well as new projects including the London Bridge Tower, UK

Table of Contents

  • Completed buildings: Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, Italy
  • Aurora Place Office and Residential Building, Sydney, Australia
  • KPN Telecom Office Tower, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Parca Della Musica Auditorium, Rome, Italy
  • Niccolo Paganini Auditorium, Parma, Italy
  • Maison Hermes, Tokyo, Japan
  • The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA
  • EMI Music France Headquarters, Paris, France
  • Il Sole 24 Ore Headquarters, Milan, Italy Projects: The London Bridge Tower, London, UK
  • New York Times Tower, NY, USA

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