Book Review: Two Monographs
Renzo Piano: The Complete Logbook by Renzo Piano
Thames and Hudson, 2017
Hardcover, 420 pages
This Building Likes Me: The Work of John Wardle Architects by John Wardle Architects
Thames and Hudson, 2016
Hardcover, 440 pages
The cover of the updated version of Renzo Piano's Logbook is appropriate, since the architect's sketches are as singular and distinctive as his buildings. Although I'm not certain which project the sketch represents, the inclusion of a sailing boat says as much about Piano as the building's waterfront site. Among the more than 70 projects included in the Logbook are the sailing boats Piano designed from 1960 to 2007. A reflection of his love of sailing, the boats were also a means of testing out materials and ideas that would be applied to buildings. It would be hard to have an office sited on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean (photo below) and not carry on a love with the water.
[Punta Nave, Genoa, Italy, 1991 | Photo: Fregoso & Basalto, courtesy of Thames & Hudson]
I never had a copy of the first Logbook, which was published in 1997, so I can't compare the two, but for fans of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, like me, the book is sure to be a delight. In some ways it functions like a smaller version of the multi-volume "Complete Works" authored by Peter Buchanan (I have volume 4, so I can make something of a comparison), most notably in how some projects are presented in detail and all of them include nu...
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