Piano

Piano

<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>The mechanics of lightness: The wide-ranging career of the Italian virtuoso</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text"> "The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries." Such was the description of Renzo Piano given by the Pritzker Prize jury citation as they bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998. Whereas some architects have a signature style, <strong>what sets Piano apart is that he seeks simply to apply a coherent set of ideas to new projects in extraordinarily different ways</strong>. "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 explains why it takes more than a superficial glance to recognize Piano€s fingerprints on such varied projects as the <strong>Pompidou Center</strong> in Paris, the <strong>Kansai Airport</strong> in Osaka, Japan, the <strong>Tjibaou Cultural Center</strong> in Noum©a, New Caledonia, the<strong> Zentrum Paul Klee</strong> in Bern, Switzerland, <strong>The New York Times Building</strong> in New York, and his most recent structure, the <strong>London Bridge Tower</strong>, which will be upon completion the tallest building in Western Europe.</div> <div class="margin-bottom">  </div> <div class="margin-bottom" id="series_text" style="display: block;"> <strong>About the Series:</strong><br /> Each book in TASCHEN€s Basic Architecture Series features:<ul> <li>an introduction to the life and work of the architect</li> <li>the major works in chronological order</li> <li>information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions</li> <li>a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings</li> <li>approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)</li> </ul> </div> </div>