Renzo Piano. 1937. The Poetry of Flight: Philip Jodidio

“The Array of Buildings by Renzo Piano IS Staggering in Scope and Comprehensave in the Diversity of Scale, Material, and Form. He is Truly An Architect Whose Sensibilites Represent the Widest Range of this and Earlier centuries. ” SUCH WAS THE DESCRIPTION OF RENZO PINO Given by the Pritzker Prize Jury Citation As the Bestowed the Prestigious Award on Him in 1998. Whereas Some Architects Have ave ave ave ale Signature Style, What Sets Piano Apart IS that He Seeks Simply to Apply a Coherent Set of Ideas to New Projects in Exteordinarly Diffferent 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 Explans 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 Airportsi Airports in Osaka, Japan, The TJibaou Cultural CE …

Author
Jodidio Philip
Publisher
Taschen, 2013
Series
Architecture and design
Genre
Design. Fashion. Photo