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15 arc 6.4 – CONTEMPORARY

ARCHITECTURE
6TH SEMESTER – P10

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• Renzo Piano, best known for his high-tech public spaces,
particularly his design (with Richard Rogers) for the Centre
Georges Pompidou in Paris.
• Born into a family of builders, Piano graduated from the
Polytechnic in Milan in 1964.
• He worked with a variety of architects, including his father, until
he established a partnership with Rogers from 1970 to 1977.
Their high-tech design for the Centre Georges Pompidou (1971–
77) in Paris, made to look like an “urban machine,” immediately
gained the attention of the international
architectural community.
• Colourful air ducts and elevators positioned on the building’s
exoskeleton created a vivid aestheticimpression, and the
structure’s playfulness challenged staid, institutional ideas of
what a museum should be.
• From a functional standpoint, the position of service elements
such as elevators on the exterior allowed an open, flexible plan in
the building’s interior.
• While many complained that it did not fit the context of the
historic neighbourhood, the Pompidou nonetheless helped bring
about the revitalization of the area when it became an
internationally renowned landmark.
• Piano’s interest in technology and modern solutions to
architectural problems was evident in all his designs, although
he increasingly took greater account of the structure’s context.
• His design for the Menil Collection museum (1982–86; with
Richard Fitzgerald) in Houston, Texas, utilized ferroconcrete
leaves in the roof, which served as both a heat source and a form
of protection against ultraviolet light.
• At the same time, the building’s low scale and continuous
veranda are in keeping with the mostly residential structures
nearby.
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• His other important commissions include
• San Nicola Soccer Stadium (1987–90) in Bari, Italy;
• the Kansai International Airport Terminal (1988–94) in Ōsaka,
Japan;
• the Auditorium Parco della Musica (1994–2002) in Rome; and
• the Beyeler Foundation Museum (1992–97) in Basel, Switzerland.
• One of his most-celebrated 21st-century projects, notable for
its green architecture, was a new building for the California
Academy of Sciences (completed 2008) in San Francisco’s Golden
Gate Park.
• Piano also worked on urban revitalization plans, including the
conversion of a massive historic Fiat factory (1983–2003) in
Turin, Italy, into the city’s trade fair and convention centre district.
• This attention to context also influenced his acclaimed museum
addition—the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999–
2009), which he designed to respond to the plans of
the adjacent Millennium Park, with its band shell by Frank
Gehry and large-scale sculptures by Anish Kapoor (Cloud Gate,
2004) and Jaume Plensa (The Crown Fountain, 2004).
• Piano’s design for the Shard (2000–12), formerly known as London
Bridge Tower, was given its nickname—which eventually became its
official name—because of its sharply tapered glass facade.
• The mixed-use building rose 310 metres (1,017 feet) above street
level, making it the tallest building in western Europe upon its
completion.
• Towering above the historical skyline of London, it was criticized by
some for not conforming to the scale of the rest of the city.
• Piano has received numerous awards and prizes, including the
Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture
(1995), the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1998), and the American
Institute of Architects Gold Medal (2008).
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