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he mechanics of lightness: The wide-ranging career of the Italian virtuoso

“The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries.” Such was the description of Renzo Piano given by the Pritzker Prize jury citation as they bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998. Whereas some architects have a signature style, what sets Piano apart is that he seeks simply to apply a coherent set of ideas to new projects in extraordinarily different ways.

“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again,” Piano says. “Like a movie director doing a love story, a Western, or a murder mystery, a new world confronts an architect with each project.” This explains why it takes more than a superficial glance to recognize Piano’s fingerprints on such varied projects as the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kansai Airport in Osaka, Japan, the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, New Caledonia, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, the New York Times Building in New York, and The Shard in London, the tallest building in the European Union.

About the series:
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)

Introduction

Centre Georges Pompidou
Menil Collection
Redevelopment of the Old Harbor of Genoa
Lingotto Factory Conversion
Kansai International Airport Terminal
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Banca Popolare di Lodi
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center
Potsdamer Platz Reconstruction
Beyeler Foundation
Niccolo Paganini Auditorium
Maison Hermes
Parco della Musica Auditorium
Aurora Place
Nasher Sculpture Center
Zentrum Paul Klee
High Museum of Art Expansion
Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion
The New York Times Building
California Academy of Sciences Renovation and Expansion
Modern Wing of the Art Institure of Chicago
Central Saint Giles Mixed-Use Development
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (BCAM and the Resnick Pavilion)
The Shard - London Bridge Tower
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
Auditorium del Parco
Kimbell Art Museum Expansion
The Whitney Museum of American Art

Life and Work / Staff
Partners
Collaborators
World Map
Prizes / Bibliography / Credits
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