Conversations with Renzo Piano by Fundación Arquia
19/02/2018.
[Madrid] Spain
metalocus, JOAQUIN MINAYA
metalocus, JOAQUIN MINAYA
The arquia / masters collection expands its work with a documentary in which it shows the figure of Renzo Piano in his most personal and close facet. This documentary serves as support for cultural diffusion in the field of architecture.
Conversations with Renzo Piano by Fundación Arquia. Photograph © rpbw, Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Conversations with Renzo Piano by Fundación Arquia. Photograph © rpbw, Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Conversations with Renzo Piano by Fundación Arquia. Photograph © Studio Piano & Rogers
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Video screenshot
The documentary, made by the Fundación Arquia, is a chronological journey through the life and work of Renzo Piano. The architect Luis Fernández-Galiano interviews Renzo Piano at his home and studio, which means a change in what has been usual in the arquia / masters collection, resulting in a closer and personal interview.
Link to acquire the film + book here.
Link to acquire the film + book here.
Description of project by Fundación Arquia
The Fundación Arquia, continuing its work of support for the dissemination of cultural activity in the field of architecture, on Wednesday, February 21 at 6:30 pm will present at the Film Academy, the new documentary 'Conversations with Renzo Piano'.
The intimate and sincere interview, recorded in Punta Nave, moves away from the television set to be shot in the architect's home and studio, resulting in a personal, human and very warm piece.
The interview, conducted by architect Luis Fernández-Galiano, is orchestrated in six parts and chronologically traces Renzo Piano's itinerary. The introduction, until the training period, is followed by five sections that use the thread of the constructed work, three of them having been highlighted in each section, as landmarks of the biographical journey.
In the conversation, Piano traces his biography from the first steps, marked by his father builder or the influence of upcoming teachers like Franco Albini and farther away such as Buckminster Fuller, Frei Otto or Jean Prouvé, to the most recent works in the United States or Europe, where it has been possible to measure itself with the Louis Kahn of the Kimbell Museum or that of Le Corbusier of Ronchamp. Facing the Mediterranean that inspires his spirit as a navigator, the architect reiterates his commitment to those who use his buildings and glosses his last work inaugurated, the Botín Center that rises in front of Santander Bay.
The documentary represents a turning point in the arquia / masters collection. On the one hand, the interview format is reformulated (more intimate and personal filming at home and study, instead of on a television set) and on the other hand the product is presented in a new interactive format more in line with the audience it is directed.
The opening of the event will be in charge of the president of the Fundación Arquia, Javier Navarro, and will have the intervention of the director of the collection Luis Fernández - Galiano.
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Architects
Renzo Piano.- Luis Fernández-Galiano
Event
Premier Documentary Presentation 'Conversations with Renzo Piano'
Date and hour
21 de febrero de 2018. 18.30 horas
Place
Film Academy Calle Zurbano, 3. 28010 Madrid
Colaborators
Folch Studio.- WhiteHorse Productions.- Arquia Banca
RENZO PIANO
Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937 to a family of builders. He graduated Milan Polytechnic in 1964 and began to work with experimental light-weight structures and basic shelters. In 1971, he founded the Piano & Rogers studio and, together with Richard Rogers, won the competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris. From the early 1970s to the 1990s, Piano collaborated with engineer Peter Rice, founding Atelier Piano & Rice in 1977. In 1981, he established the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with offices today in Genoa, Paris and New York. Renzo Piano has been awarded the highest honors in architecture, including; the Pritzker Prize; RIBA Royal Gold Medal; Medaille d’Or, UIA; Erasmus Prize; and most recently, the Gold Medal of the AIA.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop. RPBW
The Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) was established in 1981 by Renzo Piano with offices in Genoa, Italy and Paris, France. The practice has since expanded and now also operates from New York.
RPBW is led by 10 partners, including founder and Pritzker Prize laureate, architect Renzo Piano.
The practice permanently employs about 130 architects together with a further 30 support staff including 3D visualization artists, model makers, archivers, administrative and secretarial staff.
Their staff has a wide experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams on building projects in France, Italy and abroad.
As architects, they are involved in the projects from start to finish. They usually provide full architectural design services and consultancy services during the construction phase. Their design skills extend beyond mere architectural services. Their work also includes interior design services, town planning and urban design services, landscape design services and exhibition design services.
RPBW has successfully undertaken and completed over 140 projects around the world.
Currently, among the main projects in progress are: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles; the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay; the Paddington Square in London and; the Toronto Courthouse.
Major projects already completed include: the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas; the Kanak Cultural Center in Nouméa, New Caledonia; the Kansaï International Airport Terminal Building in Osaka; the Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basel; the reconstruction of the Potsdamer Platz area in Berlin; the Rome Auditorium; the New York Times Building in New York; the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco; the Chicago Art Institute expansion in Chicago, Illinois; The Shard in London; Columbia University’s Manhattanville development project in New York City; the Harvard museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Intesa Sanpaolo office building in Turin, Italy; the Kimbell Art Museum expansion in Texas; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Valletta City Gate in Malta; the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens; the Centro Botín in Santander; the New Paris Courthouse and others throughout the world.
Exhibitions of Renzo Piano and RPBW’s works have been held in many cities worldwide, including at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2018.
RPBW is led by 10 partners, including founder and Pritzker Prize laureate, architect Renzo Piano.
The practice permanently employs about 130 architects together with a further 30 support staff including 3D visualization artists, model makers, archivers, administrative and secretarial staff.
Their staff has a wide experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams on building projects in France, Italy and abroad.
As architects, they are involved in the projects from start to finish. They usually provide full architectural design services and consultancy services during the construction phase. Their design skills extend beyond mere architectural services. Their work also includes interior design services, town planning and urban design services, landscape design services and exhibition design services.
RPBW has successfully undertaken and completed over 140 projects around the world.
Currently, among the main projects in progress are: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles; the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay; the Paddington Square in London and; the Toronto Courthouse.
Major projects already completed include: the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas; the Kanak Cultural Center in Nouméa, New Caledonia; the Kansaï International Airport Terminal Building in Osaka; the Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basel; the reconstruction of the Potsdamer Platz area in Berlin; the Rome Auditorium; the New York Times Building in New York; the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco; the Chicago Art Institute expansion in Chicago, Illinois; The Shard in London; Columbia University’s Manhattanville development project in New York City; the Harvard museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Intesa Sanpaolo office building in Turin, Italy; the Kimbell Art Museum expansion in Texas; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Valletta City Gate in Malta; the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens; the Centro Botín in Santander; the New Paris Courthouse and others throughout the world.
Exhibitions of Renzo Piano and RPBW’s works have been held in many cities worldwide, including at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2018.
LUIS FERNÁNDEZ-GALIANO
Luis Fernández-Galiano (1950) is an architect, professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid’s Universidad Politécnica and editor since 1985 of the journals AV/Arquitectura Viva. Between 1993 and 2006 he was in charge of the weekly architecture page of the newspaper El País, where he now writes in the Op-Ed section.
Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and of the Royal Academy of Doctors, he is an International Fellow of the RIBA, and has been Cullinan Professor at Rice University, Franke Fellow at Yale University, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center of Los Angeles, a visiting critic at Princeton, Harvard and the Berlage Institute, and has given lecture series at the Universidad Menéndez Pelayo and the Fundación March.
He has also chaired the international architecture congresses ‘More for Less’ (2010), ‘The Common’ (2012) and ‘Necessary Architecture’ (2014). President of the jury in the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale, juror of the Mies van der Rohe Award and of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, he has curated the exhibitions El espacio privado, Extreme Eurasia (in Tokyo and in Madrid), Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth and Jean Prouvé: Industrial Beauty (these last two with Norman Foster), as well as Spain mon amour (in the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale and in Madrid), and The Architect is Present.
He has been on the jury of several international competitions in Europe, America and Asia, including those of the National Library of Mexico, the National Art Museum of China, the National Library of Israel and the Noble Qur’an Oasis in Madinah. Among his books are La Quimera Moderna, Fire and Memory, Spain Builds (with New York’s MoMA in its English version, and presented in its Chinese version with symposiums in Shanghai and Beijing) and Atlas, Architectures of the 21st Century, a series of four volumes.
Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and of the Royal Academy of Doctors, he is an International Fellow of the RIBA, and has been Cullinan Professor at Rice University, Franke Fellow at Yale University, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center of Los Angeles, a visiting critic at Princeton, Harvard and the Berlage Institute, and has given lecture series at the Universidad Menéndez Pelayo and the Fundación March.
He has also chaired the international architecture congresses ‘More for Less’ (2010), ‘The Common’ (2012) and ‘Necessary Architecture’ (2014). President of the jury in the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale, juror of the Mies van der Rohe Award and of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, he has curated the exhibitions El espacio privado, Extreme Eurasia (in Tokyo and in Madrid), Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth and Jean Prouvé: Industrial Beauty (these last two with Norman Foster), as well as Spain mon amour (in the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale and in Madrid), and The Architect is Present.
He has been on the jury of several international competitions in Europe, America and Asia, including those of the National Library of Mexico, the National Art Museum of China, the National Library of Israel and the Noble Qur’an Oasis in Madinah. Among his books are La Quimera Moderna, Fire and Memory, Spain Builds (with New York’s MoMA in its English version, and presented in its Chinese version with symposiums in Shanghai and Beijing) and Atlas, Architectures of the 21st Century, a series of four volumes.
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