FRAGMENTS Renzo Piano Building Workshop June 27
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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: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 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