While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form.<\/p>\n
Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that \u201cturned the architecture world upside down.\u201d Since then, he has continued to craft many high-profile cultural spaces, including the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion in New York; and, most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, an asymmetric nine-story structure in Manhattan\u2019s Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor galleries. In New York and London, the Renzo touch has also transformed the skyline with the towers of the New York Times Building and the Shard, the tallest building in the European Union.<\/p>\n
This essential introduction travels from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the \u201cinside-out\u201d Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noum\u00e9a, New Caledonia, this is a thrilling journey through the beauty of architecture, where, in Piano\u2019s own words, \u201ceach time, it is like life starting all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form. Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4516],"product_tag":[1126,516],"class_list":{"0":"post-16706","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-en","7":"product_tag-architects-en","8":"product_tag-places-en","9":"pa_author_att-philip-jodidio-en","10":"pa_cover-hardcover","11":"pa_format-21-x-26-cm-en","12":"pa_isbn-9783836536462-en","13":"pa_language-eng","14":"pa_pages-96-en","15":"pa_published-2016-06-01-en","16":"pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","18":"first","19":"outofstock","20":"sold-individually","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n