{"title":"Renzo Piano","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"on-tour-with-renzo-piano","title":"On Tour with Renzo Piano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare \u0026amp; Collectible\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRenzo Piano, winner of the 1998 Pritzker Prize, is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be so excitingly innovative as to capture the imagination of his admirers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the very few architects across the world 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 Renzo Piano Workshop with Piano himself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeaturing approximately twenty-two built projects, \u003cem\u003eOn Tour with Renzo Piano\u003c\/em\u003e introduces each building through his own 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProjects featured range from urban works such as Berlin''s Potsdamer Platz masterplan, to the acclaimed Beyeler Foundation in Basel and the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia. The ethos of Renzo Piano Building Workshop is characterised by 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn Tour with Renzo Piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e illuminates this with energy and meticulous presentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phaidon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46157103071490,"sku":"BK-PHA-OTRW-001-T","price":6.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_2903_cb90a6f8-58f6-441d-9119-950912de7207_3c18a5a4-1532-45e2-9ed7-5326a8962dbe.jpg?v=1791187541"},{"product_id":"renzo-piano","title":"Renzo Piano","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis book is from the \u003cem\u003eArchipocket\u003c\/em\u003e series from teNeues which provide introductions to the worlds leading architects. Here there are 10 projects covered from the 1980s through to the early 2000s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRenzo Piano (b. 1937) studied architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan and completed his training with trips to Great Britain and the United States between 1965 and 1970. In 1971\u003cbr\u003ehe founded a company with Richard Rogers, his partner on the Georges Pompidou Centre project in Paris. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"teNeues","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46955324670210,"sku":"BK-TEN-REPI-001-I","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_4945_a3286e2c-5f2a-4c46-bf0a-5cd0324f205e.jpg?v=1790511847"},{"product_id":"renzo-piano-renzo-piano-building-workshop","title":"Renzo Piano \u0026 Renzo Piano Building Workshop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRenzo Piano is one of the world’s greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten and created in collaboration with the Piano Foundation in Genoa, this richly illustrated volume covers the early work as well as the most recent designs, making a complete survey of his career to date. Starting with his beginnings with the Pompidou Centre in the 1970s (in collaboration with Richard Rogers) the story continues up to construction of one of the spectacular new bridge in Genoa in 2020.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe book explores all of the studio’s main projects: the public spaces and museums, airports, theatres, and libraries. As well as giving unique insights into the creative process of Piano himself, the book includes numerous unpublished designs and photographs. In the process the book reveals Piano’s unique way of handling light and space, as well as his particular attention to the social implications of the profession of architect and the relationship of buildings to their urban environment and landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frances Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47218930712834,"sku":"BK-FRA-RPRPBW-001-G","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_6724_af1e7d10-de2e-40cb-aea8-5c9f2c708f6f.jpg?v=1790760589"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/collections\/renzo-piano.oembed","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}