Renzo Piano-Jerome L. Greene Science Center for Mind Brain Behavior,2007 image © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

March 28-June 28,2015 / 7F, Power Station of Art

The exhibition Piece by Piece:Renzo Piano Building Workshop is travelling to China and will be staged at Power Station, Shanghai, from 28 March 2015 to 28 June 2015. The exhibition is arranged around 32 tabletop which display scale models, drawings, photographs, and videos that explain the work of the architects and the daily studio practice at the core of Piano’s work. RPBW’s exhibition will also include original sketches, renderings and a lecture by Renzo Piano.

Renzo Piano-The Sard-London Bridge Tower,2012 image © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

And as Shanghai’s generator for its new urban culture, PSA regards non-stopping innovation and progress as the key to its long-term vitality. The museum has been striving to provide an open platform for the public to learn and appreciate contemporary art, break the barrier between life and art, and promote cooperation and knowledge generation between different schools of art and culture.

Renzo Piano-Auditorium del parco,2012 image © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Since 2013, the Power Station of Art has set “architecture and space” as an important academic research direction, presenting thematic exhibitions, symposiums and practice projects each year, and meanwhile preparing to establish an architecture document database.

Renzo Piano-Kimbell Art Museum expansion,2013 image © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Piece by Piece: Renzo Piano Building Workshop is the second large-scale exhibition of this project, and also the first retrospective of this Pritzker Architecture Prize winner in mainland China.  This exhibition not only explores the relations among material, structure, atmosphere and inhabitants, but also manifests the inexorable process of this master architect setting out from Milan modernism, exceeding traditions, infinitely approaching precision and freedom of poem.  It’s believed this exhibition would bring enormous enlightenment and inspiration to young Chinese architects.

Renzo Piano-Kansai International Airport Terminal Building,1994 image © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Renzo Piano-Centre Georges Pompidou,1977 image © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Renzo Piano-Beyeler Foundation Museum,2000 image © Renzo Piano Building Workshop

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