Showing posts with label Renzo Piano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renzo Piano. Show all posts

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Renzo Piano: The Complete Logbook

Renzo Piano 


Beautiful! I ordered this monograph using my “Amazon Points” (no new cash outlay, shipping charge, or sales tax) -- yay!

“The work of one of the world’s most influential architects, in his own words

Renzo Piano has created some of the most emblematic buildings of our age, including the New York Times Building in New York City, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Shard in London, and the Parco della Musica in Rome. 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.

Over one hundred works are featured, accompanied by over one thousand images of Piano’s work around the world including new photographs, drawings, and sketches, both intimate and authoritative, all with commentaries by the architect that combine personal anecdote and technical description with original insights.

No other architecture book will appeal to such a broad range of professionals and general readers alike. This is an unmatched introduction to the work of one of the world’s most influential and inspiring architects.

1000+ illustrations

“An impressively comprehensive book.”  -- "Architectural Record”

Sunday, July 1, 2018

On the Reading Table: Martin Filler's "Makers of Modern Architecture"

I'm about half-way through Martin Filler's book, "Makers of Modern Architecture." A good read. Thus far, he's been very kind to my own faves -- Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and most especially, Louis Kahn. Less so to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Le Corbousier. He TOTALLY trashes the architecture of Philip Johnson (that's what you get for dissing FLLW, PJ). Hammer-time. 

In the photo section in the middle of the book, Texas art museums are singled out for some very high praise -- the ultimate --Louis Kahn's Kimbell Museum as well as Renzo Piano's beautiful De Menil Museum and his Nasher Sculpture Museum. I have to agree -- I love them! Sorry, Amon Carter Museum (designed by Philip Johnson).

As a young artist, I grew up visiting the best! Throw in the Meadows Museum's Diego Velasquez and Francisco Goya artworks and the experiences were TOPS!

Martin Filler


Louis Kahn



Renzo Piano




Renzo Piano