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“The Piano Method” at Cité de l’architecture&du patrimoine Paris can be visited until 29 February

France Architecture News - Jan 22, 2016 - 17:16   6144 views

“The Piano Method” at Cité de l’architecture&du patrimoine Paris can be visited until 29 February

Renzo Piano at the exhibition “Renzo Piano Building Workshop. La méthode Piano” © Gaston Bergeret. Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine.

This workshop-exhibition takes a journey through RPBW’s recent projects via a series of very detailed work tables that invite the visitor to immerse themselves in each project, its genesis and its specific logic. The exhibition’s thematic itinerary is built around six families of projects mainly in Europe and the United States, with a special focus on a humanitarian project in Africa. 

The art of building and assembling is the trademark of Renzo Piano, born into a family of builders whose projects were experimentation fields in the technical sector as well as on the urban scale. If there is a common theme in his work, it is the relationship with the city. Designing the highest tower in Europe on a London train station in the same way as inserting asmall building in a Haussmannian block in Paris or developing an eco-district in northern Italy in Trento, or incorporating the new Maltese parliament into the “City of the Knights” in Valletta, are challenges that Renzo Piano and his team like to tackle.....Continue Reading

“The Piano Method” at Cité de l’architecture&du patrimoine Paris can be visited until 29 February

View of the exhibition “Renzo Piano Building Workshop. La méthode Piano” © Gaston Bergeret. Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine.

“The Piano Method” at Cité de l’architecture&du patrimoine Paris can be visited until 29 February

View of the exhibition “Renzo Piano Building Workshop. La méthode Piano” © Gaston Bergeret. Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine.

“The Piano Method” at Cité de l’architecture&du patrimoine Paris can be visited until 29 February

View of the exhibition “Renzo Piano Building Workshop. La méthode Piano” © Gaston Bergeret. Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine.

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