Main entry:

Ciccarelli, Lorenzo, 1987- author.

Title & Author:

Renzo Piano before Renzo Piano : masters and beginnings / Lorenzo Ciccarelli ; translated from the Italian by Richard Sadleir.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Genoa] : Fondazione Renzo Piano ; Macerata : Quodlibet, [September 2017]

Description:

313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Habitat ; 14

Notes:
Renzo Piano (1937-),.
Italian edition also available.
Translation of: Renzo Piano prima Renzo Piano : i maestri e gli esordi.
Bibliography of works by and on Renzo Piano (pages 295-297).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. "Prehistory" : 1958-1971 -- Florence: Filippo Brunelleschi and Pier Luigi Nervi -- The hands of Albini -- Polytechnic culture in Milan -- Jean Prouvé : the workshop and the atelier -- Five patents, plus one -- Zygunt Makowski's space structures -- Marco Zanuso: Lessons in industrial architecture -- Two exhibitions and an exhibition pavilion: London, Milan, Osaka - An "elder brother": Richard Rogers -- American intermezzo : Robert Le Ricolais and Louis Kahn -- The workshop of the Architectural Association School -- A new beginning: Beaubourg.
In English, translated from the Italian.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

Summary:

This book explores Renzo Piano's formative years, before the major achievement of the Centre Pompidou. The striking success of an architect little more than thirty years old in the famous 1971 international competition has long tended to eclipse his previous experience, which is fundamental to understanding the genesis not only of the Beaubourg but all Piano's subsequent work. The dense ramifications of his experience, spreading in many different directions, have now finally been retraced by Lorenzo Ciccarelli, the first scholar to have access to the archives of the Renzo Piano Foundation. The chapters of the book seek 'to offer a coherent and many-sided understanding of the magmatic energy that drove Piano's remarkable works, while preserving the rhapsodic qualities of a true "portrait of the artist as a young man".' Immediately after graduating, Piano built a series of radical and innovative experimental structures, combining his mastery of prefabrication with an instinctive interest in industrial design.

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ISBN:

9788822901316 (paperback)
8822901312

Subject:

Piano, Renzo.
Piano, Renzo Friends and associates.
Piano, Renzo 1937-
Piano, Renzo (1937-....).
Architects Italy Biography.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Italy History 20th century.
Architectes Italie Biographies.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Friendship
Architecture, Modern
Architecture
Architects
Architektur
Italy
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

History
Biographies
Biography.

Added entries:

Sadleir, Richard, translator.
Habitat (Macerata, Italy) ; 14.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297672
Call No.: BIB 244027
Status: Available