Renzo Piano Museums | 
| Author: Renzo Piano
Creator: Victoria Newhouse
Publisher: Monacelli
Category: Book
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 10.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1580931898
Dewey Decimal Number: 727.7092
EAN: 9781580931892
ASIN: 1580931898
Publication Date: October 4, 2007
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Creating space for the display of works of art has intrigued Renzo Piano throughout his thirty-five years of architectural practice. Today he is acknowledged the pre-eminent designer in this field, entrusted with the collections of the most distinguished art institutions in the world.
Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen museum projects, beginning with the revolutionary Pompidou Center in Paris and continuing to the most current designs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo. Featured are the Menil Collection in Houston, the Beyeler Foundation on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Lush color photographs and handsome presentation drawings and plans convey the form and detail of these extraordinary buildings.
Complementing the visual presentation is an essay by Victoria Newhouse, which surveys Piano's museum work and places it in a historical context. In particular, she focuses on the key elements of Piano's aesthetic: natural light, transparency, and the piazza or gathering space. All were introduced at the Pompidou Center and continue to inform the designs.
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THE ELEGANT RENZO January 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love Piano's work, it's elegant and functional. This book is fantastic, it is well researched and the images are very well presented. Though Piano designs all kinds of buildings for all sorts of functions, he is most famous for his museums. I am most familiar with his amazing buildings for the Menil Collection and his Nasher Collection, the are both quenticential Renzo Piano. The two builds at first glance, look little alike, but if you tour them, the are actually quite similar, Piano uses his amazing understanding of light to make the buildings come alive. This book includes these buildings of course, but also other musuems he created, all so different on the surface, but still so Piano. I saw him lecture at the Menil last summer and he was amazing, very funny and charismatic, he had the whole outdoor pavilion in the palm of his hand. He of course talked about his obsession with how light is going to play in his buildings and he discussed Mrs. Menil, and you realized why his clients love him so much. I dont usually call somebody a genius, but when it comes to architecture, Piano is indeed a genius, he is without question one of the most inventive and most admired architect of his era. As for this book, if you love Piano or just appreciate beautiful architecture, I cant imagine you not loving this book.
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