Piano [Hardcover]

While some architects have a signature style,Renzo Pianoseeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for theirdiversity of scale, material, and form.

Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of thePompidou Centerin Paris, described byThe New York Timesas a building that turned the architecture world upside down. Since then, he has continued to craft many high-profile cultural spaces, including theModern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago; theMorgan Library Renovation and Expansionin New York; and, most recently, theWhitney Museum of American Art,an asymmetric nine-story structure in Manhattans Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor galleries. In New York and London, the Renzo touch has alsotransformed the skylinewith the towers of theNew York Times Buildingand theShard, the tallest building in the European Union.

This essential introduction travels from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From theinside-out Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noum?a, New Caledonia,this is a thrilling journey through the beauty of architecture, where, in Pianos own words, each time, it is like life starting all over again.

BATravel from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the inside-out Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noum?a, New Caledonia, this essential architect introduction reveals a restless visionary, constantly experimenting with scale, material, anl#$