Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece
Exhibiting architecture is a difficult task. Nothing can really replace direct experience the built space, the perception of the hybrid fabric of the city, and listening to the voices that life continuously produces.
Yet an exhibition of architecture can immediately convey the complex and shared process by which the buildings are devised, built and then inhabited. A viewing by fragments comprising drawings , materials and the instruments of this painstaking research, the same the are found on architects' work table.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
The exhibition showcases architectural projects from the last thirty years by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. It consists of 18 tabletop displays of scale models, drawings, photographs and video, chronicling the history of different projects by the internationally renowned architectural firm.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
The presentation in the SNFCC is the last stop of the traveling exhibition, which began its journey back in 2013, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. Previous stops included the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, in 2014, as part of the International Biennial Architecture and Shanghai, in 2015, where the exhibition was hosted at the Power Station of Art.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
The creation of the exhibition, its tour in the cities leading up to Athens and, of course, its stay at the SNFCC, were all realized with an exclusive grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
Renzo Piano, the internationally renowned architect has said about the exhibition: "It is very difficult to successfully exhibit architecture. Nothing can really substitute actually being in the building itself, the feeling of the hybrid texture of a city, the continuous stream of voices that make up the sounds of life. An architectural exhibition can, however, clearly transmit something of the complex and shared process through which the buildings we design are conceived, constructed and then inhabited. … I like to think of this exhibition like a journey through space.”
Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
The SNFCC itself holds a special place in the exhibition. One of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s most recent works, its construction began in the fall of 2012 and was completed in August 2016.
As such, exhibition visitors will have the opportunity to get acquainted, step by step, with the conception, design and implementation of one of the largest construction projects in Greece’s recent history.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
The Renzo Piano Building Workshop was established in 1981. Currently, 130 architecture and engineering experts work with the Italian architect in his practices in Paris, Genoa and New York. In collaboration with them, Renzo Piano has developed some of the most unmistakable landmark projects worldwide, including the Kansai International Airport Terminal Building in Osaka, the Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basel, the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia, the Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome, the Morgan Library in New York, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, USA, the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Whitney Museum in New York and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
*Τhe opening of the architectural exhibition “Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” took place at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre οn April 27th
*The exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with the exclusive support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Exhibition info:
“Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse
April 27 – July 23, 2017
Opening Hours: 06:00 – 24:00
Free Admission
Exhibiting architecture is a difficult task. Nothing can really replace direct experience the built space, the perception of the hybrid fabric of the city, and listening to the voices that life continuously produces.
Yet an exhibition of architecture can immediately convey the complex and shared process by which the buildings are devised, built and then inhabited. A viewing by fragments comprising drawings , materials and the instruments of this painstaking research, the same the are found on architects' work table.
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| Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina |
The exhibition showcases architectural projects from the last thirty years by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. It consists of 18 tabletop displays of scale models, drawings, photographs and video, chronicling the history of different projects by the internationally renowned architectural firm.
 |
| Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina |
The presentation in the SNFCC is the last stop of the traveling exhibition, which began its journey back in 2013, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. Previous stops included the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, in 2014, as part of the International Biennial Architecture and Shanghai, in 2015, where the exhibition was hosted at the Power Station of Art.
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| Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina |
The creation of the exhibition, its tour in the cities leading up to Athens and, of course, its stay at the SNFCC, were all realized with an exclusive grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
 |
| Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina |
Renzo Piano, the internationally renowned architect has said about the exhibition: "It is very difficult to successfully exhibit architecture. Nothing can really substitute actually being in the building itself, the feeling of the hybrid texture of a city, the continuous stream of voices that make up the sounds of life. An architectural exhibition can, however, clearly transmit something of the complex and shared process through which the buildings we design are conceived, constructed and then inhabited. … I like to think of this exhibition like a journey through space.”
 |
| Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina |
The SNFCC itself holds a special place in the exhibition. One of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s most recent works, its construction began in the fall of 2012 and was completed in August 2016.
As such, exhibition visitors will have the opportunity to get acquainted, step by step, with the conception, design and implementation of one of the largest construction projects in Greece’s recent history.
 |
| Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina |
The Renzo Piano Building Workshop was established in 1981. Currently, 130 architecture and engineering experts work with the Italian architect in his practices in Paris, Genoa and New York. In collaboration with them, Renzo Piano has developed some of the most unmistakable landmark projects worldwide, including the Kansai International Airport Terminal Building in Osaka, the Beyeler Foundation Museum in Basel, the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia, the Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome, the Morgan Library in New York, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, USA, the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Whitney Museum in New York and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens.
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Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse | April 27 – July 23 / 2017 | Photos by Athens Culturelles Cuko Christina
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Exhibition info:
“Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Piece by Piece” Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - Lighthouse
April 27 – July 23, 2017
Opening Hours: 06:00 – 24:00
Free Admission
