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Piano
Contributor(s): Jodidio, Philip (Author)
ISBN: 3836536463     ISBN-13: 9783836536462
Publisher: Taschen
OUR PRICE:   $18.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - Monographs
- Architecture | Buildings - General
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 8" W x 10.3" (1.25 lbs) 96 pages
 
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While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form.

Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that "turned the architecture world upside down." Since then, he has continued to craft many high-profile cultural spaces, including the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion in New York; and, most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, an asymmetric nine-story structure in Manhattan's Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor galleries. In New York and London, the Renzo touch has also transformed the skyline with the towers of the New York Times Building and the Shard, 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 the "inside-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 Piano's own words, "each time, it is like life starting all over again."

About the series

Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features:

an introduction to the life and work of the architect

the major works in chronological order

information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions

a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings

approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)


Contributor Bio(s): Jodidio, Philip: - Philip Jodidio a étudié l'histoire de l'art et l'économie à l'université Harvard et a été rédacteur en chef du magazine Connaissance des Arts pendant plus de vingt ans. Chez TASCHEN, ses publications incluent la série Architecture Now! ainsi que des monographies sur Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Oscar Niemeyer et Zaha Hadid.