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BUCHANAN, Peter

Literature & Fiction

W.H.Allen

Contemporary buildings, like contemporary forms of urban development, are major contributors to the environmental crisis. In this book documenting a major traveling exhibition organized by the Architectural League, curator and critic Peter Buchanan uses ten buildings that combine environmental responsibility and design excellence to argue that sustainability is not just good for the planet but offers architects new opportunities for creativity and innovation. He shows that there is no single route to sustainability and no such thing as a green aesthetic. Rather, through a range of building types, he demonstrates that increased awareness of a building’s setting combined with advances in technology create unlimited opportunities for responsive design. Generously illustrated with four-color photographs and plans, the book includes work by an international roster of architects, including Norman Foster, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, Herzog + Partner, and Renzo Piano. 164 color photos and drawings

Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Architectural League of NY

This text is the third in a series of volumes on Renzo Piano, one of the most internationally acclaimed architects of contemporary times. It closes with the completion of Piano's most monumental and extraordinary work, Kansai airport. An introductory essay, "From Pompidou to Kansai", reviews the full scope of his career. The most recent Renzo Piano Building Workshop projects are also included. These are described and illustrated with photographs and drawings which chart their development through design and construction stages, to completion. The last section of the book is dedicated exclusively to Kansai, describing the background to its design and construction, as well as a "walkthrough" that enables the reader to experience the building in a direct way.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Phaidon Inc Ltd

This first of four volumes on the work of Renzo Piano, shows key buildings and projects from the architect's early career as well as from the Building Workshop. It examines the evolution of his work, his working methods, his early mentors and his architectural development. Presentations of some of his most significant buildings and projects are included.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Complete Works Volume 1 (Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Paperback))

Phaidon Press

This second volume on Renzo Piano provides a study of the architect's working method, followed by a presentation of his building projects from 1987-1993. In an interview with the author, Piano discusses his early career, his attitude toward technology and his continuing evolution of what the author has termed a natural architecture. Many of the completed buildings featured in the book are located in and around Piano's home town of Genoa, from the structures associated with the 1992 Expo in the old docks to the ground-hugging form of his own laboratory in Vesima.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Complete Works Volume 2 (Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Paperback))

Renzo Piano Building Workshop - Volume 4

This third volume closes poignantly with the completion of Piano's most monumental and extraordinary work, Kansai Airport. An introductory essay, From Pompidou to Kansai, reviews the full scope of his career. The most recent Renzo Piano Building Workshop projects are also included. These are described and illustrated with photographs and drawings which chart their development through design and construction stages, to completion. The last section of the book is dedicated exclusively to Kansai, describing the background to its design and construction, as well as a walkthrough that enables the reader to experience the building in a direct way.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Complete Works Volume 3 (Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Paperback))

Renzo Piano - winner of the Pritzker Prize, 1998 - is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. as Peter Buchanan has shown in the first three volumes of Piano's complete works, he follows no fashions of form or theory, nor is he limited to a personal idiom. Instead he concerns himself with the specifics and potential of a particular situation and moment, meeting the challenges of the programme, pushing the limits of technology, but always responding sensitively to the topography or urban fabric of the building's site.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works, Vol. 4

History & Criticism

Written by one of today's most highly regarded critics, this is the 5th title in a series of authoritative volumes on one of the most internationally acclaimed architects, who has continuously produced work of exceptional contemporary relevance.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works, Vol. 5

Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Opera completa

Music

Phaidon

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