Piano, Renzo creator Newhouse, Victoria text nyu 2007 First published monographic eng spa

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214 p. chiefly col. ill. ; plans ; 32 cm. Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen museum projects, beginning with the revolutionary Pompidou Center in Paris and continuing to the most current designs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo. Featured are the Menil Collection in Houston, the Beyeler Foundation on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Lush color photographs and handsome presentation drawings and plans convey the form and detail of these extraordinary buildings. Complementing the visual presentation is an essay by Victoria Newhouse, which surveys Piano's museum work and places it in a historical context. In particular, she focuses on the key elements of Piano's aesthetic: natural light, transparency, and the piazza or gathering space. All were introduced at the Pompidou Center and continue to inform the designs -- Contents: Balancing Sacred and Profane 9 Victoria Newhouse -- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 16 -- Alexander Calder Retrospective Exhibition, Turin, Italy 30 -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Cité Internationale, Lyon, France 38 -- The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas 50 -- Cy Twombly Gallery, Houston, Texas 64 -- Reconstruction of the Atelier Brancusi, Paris 76 -- Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland 84 -- Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center, Nouméa, New Caledonia 98 -- Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Art Gallery at Lingotto, Turin, Italy 110 -- Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland 122 -- Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas 138 -- Expansion of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 156 -- Renovation and expansion of the Morgan library and museum, New York 172 -- Expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 186 -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina 194 -- Expansion of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts 198 -- Icon house, Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway 202 -- Expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California 206 -- Project credits 213 -- essay by Victoria Newhouse. Piano, Renzo Art museum architecture NA1123.P47 A4 2007 727/.7092 9781580931892 (hardcover) 2007011130 pucpr 052410 20260909113403.0 eng