Main entry:

Piano, Renzo, author.

Title & Author:

Renzo Piano : the complete logbook, 1966-2016 / Renzo Piano ; foreword by Kenneth Frampton.

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017.
©2017

Description:

419 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
At head of title: "Renzo Piano Building Workshop."
"First published in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Thames & Hudson"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-414).
Early works, 1966 -- ARAM standardized hospital unit, 1970, Washington, D.C. -- Open-plan housing, 1970, Cusago, Milan, Italy -- Offices of B & B Italia, 1971, Novedrate, Como, Italy -- Centre Georges Pompidou, 1971, Paris, France -- VSS, experimental vehicle flying carpet, 1978, Turin, Italy -- UNESCO mobile construction unit, 1978, Dakar, Senegal -- EH, Evolutive housing, 1978, Corciano, Perugia, Italy -- UNESCO District Workshop, 1979, Otranto, Italy -- Habitat, Television Broadcast RAI: Radiotelevisione Italiana, 1979 -- Schlumberger renovation, 1981, Montrouge, Paris, France -- Museum for the Menil Collection, 1981, Houston, Texas -- Alexander Calder retrospective exhibition, 1983, Turin, Italy -- Musical space for Prometeo, 1983, Venice and Milan, Italy -- IBM travelling pavilion, 1983 -- Subway stations, 1983, Genoa, Italy -- Lingotto Factory conversion, 1983, Turin, Italy -- Lowara Offices, 1984, Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, Italy -- UNESCO reclamation of the ancient moat, 1986, Rhodes, Greece -- Reclamation of the old port, 1985, Genoa, Italy -- Intervention in the archaeological city, 1987, Pompeii, Naples, Italy -- Reclamation of the Sassi, 1987, Matera, Italy -- San Nicola Stadium, 1987, Bari, Italy -- Bercy 2 shopping centre, 1987, Charenton le Pont, Paris, France -- Rue de Meaux housing, 1987, Paris, France -- IRCAM extension, 1988, Paris, France -- Terminal of Kansai International Airport, 1988, Osaka, Japan -- Cité Internationale, 1988, Lyon, France -- Renzo Piano Building Workshop, 1989, Punta Nave, Genoa, Italy -- Ushibuka Bridge, 1989, Kumamoto, Japan -- Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, 1991, Nouméa, New Caledonia -- Museum for the Beyeler Foundation, 1991, Basel, Switzerland -- Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, 1991, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy -- Cy Twombly Pavilion, 1992, Houston, Texas -- Atelier Brancusi, 1992, Paris, France -- NEMO Science Museum, 1992, Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Reconstruction of Potsdamer Platz, 1992, Berlin, Germany -- Parco della Musica Auditorium, 1994, Rome, Italy -- Ferrari wind tunnel, 1996, Maranello, Modena, Italy -- Aurora Place office and residential buildings, 1996, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia -- Niccolò Paganini Auditorium, 1996, Parma, Italy -- Maison Hermès, 1998, Tokyo, Japan -- Il Sole 24 Ore headquarters, 1998, Milan, Italy -- Nasher Sculpture Center, 1999, Dallas, Texas -- High Museum of Art extension, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia -- Zentrum Paul Klee, 1999, Bern, Switzerland -- Peek & Cloppenburg Department Store, 1999, Cologne, Germany -- Renovation and expansion of the Morgan Library, 2000, New York City -- The New York Times Building, 2000, New York City -- California Academy of the Sciences, 2000, San Francisco -- Chicago Art Institute, 2000, Chicago, Illinois -- The Shard and News Building, London -- Central Saint Giles Court mixed-use development, 2002, London -- Le Albere, MuSe and University Library, 2002, Trento, Italy -- Manhattanville campus of Columbia University, 2002, New York City -- LACMA expansion: Broad Contemporary Art Museum and Resnick Pavilion, 2003, Los Angeles -- Luna Rossa team base for the 32nd America's Cup, 2005, Valencia, Spain -- Renovation and expansion of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts -- Private house, 2006, Aspen, Colorado -- Convent of Saint Clare and visitor's centre, 2006, Ronchamp, France -- Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2006, Oslo, Norway -- Pathé Foundation, 2006, Paris, France -- Harvard Art Museums renovation and expansion, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts -- Intesa Sanpaolo office building, 2006, Turin, Italy -- Kimbell Art Museum expansion, 2007, Fort Worth, Texas -- The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2007, New York City -- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, 2008, Athens, Greece -- An eolian machine wind turbine for ENEL, 2009, Valletta, Malta -- Valletta City Gate, Valletta, Malta -- Auditorium del Parco, 2010, L'Aquila, Italy -- Diogene minimal housing unit, 2011 -- Sailing boats, 1960-2007 -- The 'workshop' of architecture / Giulio Macchi -- Biography -- Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Paris, Genoa, New York.
Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

Renzo Piano has created some of the most emblematic buildings of our age, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Shard in London, the Parco della Musica in Rome, and the New York Times Building in New York City. Here, Renzo Piano himself - whose many international awards include the prestigious Pritzker Prize - presents in his own words the works on which he has built his reputation over a span of fifty years.

ISBN:

9780500343104 (hardback)
0500343101 (hardback)

Subject:

Piano, Renzo Criticism and interpretation.
Piano, Renzo, 1937-
Piano, Renzo.
Architectural practice, International.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Pratique internationale.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Frampton, Kenneth, writer of foreword.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, issuing body.

Complete logbook, 1966-2016

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294738
Call No.: BIB 240578
Status: Available