Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Space - Detail - Light
by Edgar Stach
Birkhäuser, July 2021

Hardcover | 9 x 11-2/4 inches | 160 pages | English | ISBN: 9783035614602 | 39.95?

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
The Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano is recognized worldwide as one of the most renowned architects of our time. Central elements of his aesthetics include the playful use of natural light, the transparency of his buildings and their fine detailing.
This publication documents nine museum buildings by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
Prof. Edgar Stach, College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
One of the highlights of a trip to Dallas a decade and a half ago was an afternoon spent at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the downtown museum designed by Renzo Piano with a generous sculpture garden by Peter Walker and a "skyspace" by James Turrell. The museum being open past sunset afforded dramatic sky-changing views from within Tending, (Blue), making Turrell's contribution to the museum particularly memorable. But in 2013, ten years after the Nasher opened to the public, the skyspace closed, when the artist declared it "destroyed" after a new 40-story residential tower east of the Nasher encroached upon the sculpture's square patch of sky. That tower, with its elliptical floor plan guaranteeing reflecting light scattered in all directions over the course of a day, al...