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Author:   Peter Buchanan
Publisher:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 25.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   1.500kg
ISBN:  

9780714838984

ISBN 10:   0714838985
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 July 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

A natural architecture: Il Rigo Housing, Corciano; Kansai International Airport Terminal. Spirit of the workshop: early influences; Genoa office-workshop; QB Housing, Genoa. Piano practices: reinforced polyester space frame; woodwork shop, Genoa; mobile structure for sulphur extraction; studio piano; tensile steel and reinforced-polyester structure; Piano and Rogers; B&B Italia Offices, Como; shell structural system for the 14th Milan Triennale; Italian Industry Pavilion. Expo 1970; free-plan houses, Cusago; Pompidou Centre, Paris; Piano and Rice Associates; Fiat VSS experimental car; flying carpet basic vehicle; the open site ; UNESCO Neighbourhood Workshop, Otranto. Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Aluminium Research Institute, Novara; Calder Retrospective; Prometeo opera, setting for; IBM Trevalling Pavilion; Schlumberger renovation, Paris; IBM Ladybird Pavilion; Lowara Offices, Montecchio Maggiore; De Menil Collection Gallery, Houston; Contemporary Art Museum, Newport harbour; Cy Twombly Pavilion, Houston; Rhodes Moat Development; Valletta City Gate; Palladio Basilica Rehabilitation, Vincenza; San Nicola Stadium, Bari; European Synchroton Radiation Facility, Grenoble; Sistiana Tourist Resort, Trieste; IRCAM Extension, Paris; Rue de Meaux Housing, Paris.

Reviews

'This is the first book about the Building Workshop that is an accurate mirror of what we do and the way we do it.' (Renzo Piano)

Author Information

Peter Buchanan was formerly Deputy Editor of Architectural Review and is now a freelance writer, lecturer and critic as well as an architect.

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