Renzo Piano, Museum Maker Extraordinaire
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.11.08 | 3:52 PM ET
Photo by Travelers who love architecture and museums are well aware of Renzo Piano’s work. He has 12 museums or additions under his architectural belt—including Paris’ must-see Pompidou Centre, pictured—and several more in the works.
In the New York Review of Books, Martin Filler explores Piano’s designs and a couple of new books highlighting them.
Over the last 30 years, Filler writes, “as the museum superseded the skyscraper as an architect’s dream,” Piano has become “the most sought-after specialist in the defining architectural category of our time.”
Filler’s piece touches on a number of recent Piano designs, including the New York Times building and the new Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
The front page of Piano’s Web site has a nice slide show of some of his work.
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I think people like his work simply because it’s so weird and not normal. I know this is the reason I like it.