FRAGMENTS Renzo Piano Building Workshop June 27

Renzo Piano Building Workshop
FRAGMENTS
Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street, New York
June 27 - August 2, 2013
The purpose of this exhibition is to
educate and expand the knowledge
of architecture through a selection
of projects by architects of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The
exhibition consists of twenty-four
monographic tables telling the story
of twenty-four different projects via
models, drawings, photographs and
videos. “The atmosphere of the exhibition will be somewhere between
a reading room in a library, a classroom in a school, and a gallery in a
natural history museum,” wrote Renzo Piano to Andreas Dracopoulos,
Co-President of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (www.SNF.org),
which funded the exhibition design.
Founded in 1981, the “Renzo Piano
Building Workshop” currently has offices in Genoa, Paris and New York
and a staff of 150 people. The Genoese architect and his team have
buildings all over the world, including: The Menil Collection, Hous-
ton; Kansai International Airport,
Osaka; Fondation Beyeler, Basel;
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre,
Nouméa, New Caledonia; Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; Auditorium Parco
della Musica, Rome; The Morgan
Library & Museum, New York; New
York Times Building, New York; California Academy of Sciences, San
Francisco; The Modern Wing of The
Art Institute of Chicago; and The
“Shard”, London.
Renzo Piano’s career began in 1971
when he founded the “Piano & Rogers” Atelier in London with Richard
Rogers. The then-unknown Piano
and Rogers would go on to win the
contest for the realization of the
centre Pompidou in Paris.
Since then Piano’s works have been
awarded noumerous prizes, including: the Royal Institute of British Architects “Royal Gold Medal” (1989);
the Japan Art Association “Imperial
Praemium” (1995); the Praemium
Erasmianum Foundation “Erasmus
Prize” (1995); the “Pritzker Architecture Prize” (1998); Architettura
Biennale - La Biennale di Venezia
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2000); The American Institute
of Architects Gold Medal (2008);
and the Architectural League of New
York President’s Medal(2013).
The Fondazione Renzo Piano,
established in Genoa in 2004, is a
nonprofit organization whose mission is conservation and education.
The conservation program consists
of archiving the documents produced by Piano and the workshop in
their over forty years of existence.
As part of the educational effort the
foundation sponsors international
student scholarships for a six-month
work experience in the Genoa and
Paris offices. Additionally, the foundation publishes monographs and
organizes exhibitions and conferences.
projects included in the exhibition:
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9
10
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19
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with major support by
with the courtesy of
1. Early Works
2. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
3. Prometeo musical space
4. IBM Traveling Pavilion
5. The Menil Collection, Houston
6. Kansai International Airport, Osaka
7. Beyeler Foundation Museum, Riehen, Basel
8. Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center,
Nouméa, New Caledonia
9. “Parco della Musica” Auditorium, Rome
10. Morgan Library, New York
11. The New York Times Building, New York
12. LACMA/Academy Museum, Los Angeles
13. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
14. The Art Institute of Chicago
15. Central St.Giles, London
16. Private residence in Colorado
17. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
18. The London Bridge Tower, London
19. Tjuvholmen Icon Complex, Oslo
20. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
21. Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
22. Manhattanville Campus Development, New York
23. Whitney Museum expansion, New York
24. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center,
Athens
with the collaboration of
technical support