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Renzo Piano Paperback – Download: Adobe Reader, July 8, 2012

by Philip Jodidio (Author)

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The wide-ranging career of the Italian virtuoso

"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, what sets Piano apart is that he seeks simply to apply a coherent set of ideas to new projects in extraordinarily different 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 explains 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 airport in Osaka, Japan, the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Nouméa, New Caledonia, The New York Times Building in New York, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, and the Morgan Library in New York.
About the Series:

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

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Philip Jodidio (born 1954) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Taschen America Llc (July 8, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3836530686
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3836530682
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches

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Philip Jodidio, born in New Jersey in 1954 graduated from Harvard where he studied the history of art and economics. He was the Editor in Chief of the widest circulation French art magazine Connaissance des Arts from 1980 to 2002. He is the author of more than 150 books, mainly about contemporary architecture. He has published monographs on Richard Meier, Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, Alvaro Siza, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel and Shigeru Ban. He has also worked with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture on books concerning the heritage of the Muslim world.

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Dawn

Beautiful

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2013

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Gorgeously photographed, terrific little coffee-table book.

Small in size,and thinner than I expected, but full of amazing photographs that not only give me a greater appreciation for Renzo Piano's body of work but also puts my imagination in over-drive.

Almost every page has a small blurb describing the building or some part of the process but it's hardly meant to be an exhaustive in-depth look at his work.

Think of this as a pretty "cliffs notes" version.

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Jose

Good reference

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014

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Nice!!!

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Marc

Pretty good!

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2013

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This is a pretty good book about Renzo Piano but it is more of a basic overview of his more well known work. There are more extensive books about him and his work out there but this is a good introduction to his work.

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J. S. Hernandez

Sigh... not good enough

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2017

To my humble opinion, it is now more evident that Taschen has not taken the right direction with having only one non-specialized person to write around eight books from their Basic Architecture Series. Of these I've read four: Hadid, Calatrava, Shigeru and Piano. Nouvel... well, although I bought it, I've never feel compelled to read. Renzo Piano: The Poetry of Flight is like a rocket that never seems to care about launching. The texts are so vague, so naïve and sometimes so insulting, that I wonder what is going on with common sense with this author. The majority of the photo captions are so obvious that it would have been better to just leave the darn photo by itself. One included text in the lines of "the exterior glazing permits the passersby to contemplate sculptures by Giacometti" or "the building appears to float". Excuse me? I thought building was the attraction here. What Wait, have you read the books on the Eames, Prouvé, Frey or Neutra? Those books give so much information that you feel good about Taschen as an Editor, as a "Verlag"... What a wrong path to follow, to not even deliver the minimum so well stablished with previous books. To brag the tag printed about the author being Harvard-studied on economics and art history, explains the captions like the ones above and the focus of explanatory texts on "$400 millions dollar budgets" or on key people, or on vague descriptive, superficial facts; while totally ignoring TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION, LANDSCAPE-CONTEXT, or INTERNAL ROOMS DISTRIBUTION... In the Corbusier book, even though it had some scarcity of pictures and plans in key projects, the text was so complementary, that you understood everything. Where is all that information gone to? To the bigger and more expensive Piano Monograph by Taschen? Well, the author, when I reached about the Hadid book by him, told me that more information was available in the bigger books. I would consider that an option if that book were not also written by him.

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Anne Mills

Beautiful Photos, Greatest Hits, Quick Overview

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2014

This agreeably compact Taschen review of the work of Renzo Piano is mostly about the photos, which are beautiful and evocative of the buildings they present. Otherwise, the book provides a quick introduction to Piano's career and works. For serious study one would need more, but this is great to take along if you are travelling to the places where these buildings are located.

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Densify

Solid

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2013

Good info and plenty of projects covered. Could have stood to be a little longer and go a little more in depth.

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mara gennaro

Bel libro

Reviewed in Italy on December 30, 2016

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Una carrellata esaustiva dei lavori di Renzo Piano intorno al mondo...un libro non per specialisti del settore ma per gli amanti dell'architettura...testo in inglese!!

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Daniel Clement

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2016

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A great book :)

A. V. Baik

Renzo Piano

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2013

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This book is stuffed full of great photos and drawings. It's an account of Renzo Piano's career as an architect and of his buildings. I would have liked his drawings to be reproduced larger but this is a small criticism - I am enjoying the book very much. It's a small book taking full advantage of every scrap of space on every page. Hurray!

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pjc

great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2012

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Thanks for great book. Marvellous value for money and packed with interesting info. Well worth the cost and gives everything you want to know in a concise way

HFM

Nice book but...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2012

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Such a shame that arguably one of his best creations, the Peek & Cloppenburg Department store in Kohn, has been omitted entirely. I was really looking forward to reading about that. I will have to look around for another book more suitable. If you aren't bothered by this, it features a lot of his other works and I'm still pleased to have it. Just cannot work out for the life of me how such a wonderful piece of architecture was deemed unfit for this book.

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