Whitney of the Future: A Preview
28/04/2013.
[VIDEO] from Whitney Museum of American Art [NYC] USA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
On January 23, 2013 The Whitney presented a project update to the Arts & Institutions Committee of Community Board 2.
October 1, 2011 -- April 26, 2013. The Whitney is constructing a new building in downtown Manhattan, which will open to the public in 2015. Watch the building rise from the ground up in this regularly-updated time-lapse video, which documents progress on the construction site.
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.