{"id":20541,"date":"2021-07-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/?p=20541"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T09:25:44","slug":"design-for-millennia-renzo-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issimoissimo.com\/coltissimo\/design-for-millennia-renzo-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Design for Millennia – Renzo Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Architect Renzo Piano in front of his structure, Auditorium Parco della Musica, in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transcending architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Lightness, transparency and transcendence<\/strong>, these are elements that architect Renzo Piano<\/span><\/strong><\/a> captures and transforms into monuments of the future.  Take a look at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in Athens,  the transparent Beirut History Museum<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Paris\u2019 futuristic Centre Pompidou<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, London\u2019s totemThe Shard<\/a>, and New York\u2019s avant-garde Whitney Museum of American Art<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.  And at 84 years old, Genova<\/strong>\u2019s golden boy of architecture sees no sign of letting up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A history of building<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, AIA Gold Medal<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and Sonning Prize<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and recognised as one of the most influential architects of the 20th<\/sup> and 21st centuries<\/strong>, Piano humbly considers himself a builder. This understatement of his talents is no surprise considering his pragmatic approach to his awe-inspiring designs.<\/strong> The son of a house builder, his four uncles and grandfather had a construction enterprise under the name Fratelli Piano, paving the way for Piano\u2019s career in architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a teenager, Piano would visit building sites and also tinker with building boats, eventually pursuing his studies at Milan\u2019s illustrious Politecnico di Milano<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in the 1960\u2019s, a time when the <\/a>high tech architecture<\/strong> concept was just starting to emerge. The late 60\u2019s and early 70\u2019s was a time of potent innovation for the world of architectural design<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Neo-Avant Garde Architecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Futurism has driven Piano from the very beginning. Drawing inspiration from neo avant-garde architects like Superstudio<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and Archigram, Piano and fellow architect Richard Rogers put their hats in the ring amongst 681 firms for the bid of the now famous Centre Pompidou. Winning the bid, Piano and Rogers, in collaboration with Italian architect Gianfranco Franchini, created this one-of-a-kind museum that remains one of the most prominent examples of high-tech architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers design for Centre Pompidou. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Pompidou set the world on fire for its incorporation of space – both exterior and interior with a lively piazza<\/em>-like open area and an inside-out structure<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Exterior elements including the museum\u2019s library, research centre, auditorium and cinemas, were pushed towards the space\u2019s outer edge, while vibrantly coloured elements,<\/strong> which were designed to be easily replaced, were left in plain sight solidifying the building as one of Paris\u2019 most notable landmarks. For Piano, the Pompidou represented \u201ca joyful urban machine, a creature that might have come from a Jules Verne book<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The world of Renzo Piano<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In 1981, Piano established the Renzo Piano Building Workshop<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (RPBW) which has developed numerous globally acclaimed projects both internationally and within Italy.  In 1992, he returned to his hometown of Genova to reimagine the Porto Antico (old port area)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a> which includesthe unique aquarium<\/span><\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> and more recently the 2013 Grande Nave Blu<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, a space dedicated to the study and display of whales, dolphins and porpoises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Renzo Piano\u2019s aquarium and \u2018biosphere\u2019, in the Genova Port.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Guided by practical solutions, Piano has continued over the last five decades to gift the world with rational yet monumental architectural designs<\/strong>, always with the goal of trying to help improve people\u2019s lives. His pragmatic approach and architectural language is limitless,<\/strong> from entirely new buildings like Rome\u2019s futuristic  <\/strong>Parco della Musica<\/span><\/strong><\/a> auditorium, in which three giant bug-like halls of rusted lead hover over a multipurpose complex devoted to music, to the upcycle renovation of  the historic Fiat Lingotto factory in Torino,<\/strong> which was once was the largest and most modern car manufacturing plant in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the course of his career, Piano incorporates a broad range of materials, including natural stone like travertine from his native Italy, red brick, rusted lead and glass. Harnessing glass into innovative facades could just be an architetonic reflection of the glassine waters in Piano\u2019s hometown of Genova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Architecture for millennia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Construction of the new San Giorgio Bridge project by Renzo Piano.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In 2020, Genova inaugurated yet another pioneering Piano project<\/strong> – San Giorgio Bridge<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, which replaced the tragic Ponte Morandi which collapsed in August 2018. For this project, Piano stressed the importance of building a bridgethat is \u201cpractical, pragmatic, social, symbolic and of course poetic<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u201d His aim is for it to last a millennia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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