The exhibition “Art of building” focuses on 16 projects created by the master of light over the past 30 years, and a total of about a hundred are shown..

He is called the father of hi-tech and the master of light, he knows how to invent daring technical solutions and perfectly feels the landscape that has formed before him. Each work Renzo Piano (p. 1937), winner of the 1998 Pritzker Prize, becomes an event, starting with the building of the Pompidou Center (with Richard Rogers), built in 1977, and up to the Stavros Niarhos Cultural Center in Athens and the Botin Cultural Center in Santander (both opened in 2017). m).

“Building is a human gesture and social responsibility,” says Piano.. “I sincerely believe that architecture is designed to create a space for people where they can come together and share eternal values.”.

Perhaps that is why he is so often trusted to design museums.. Even the short list is dizzying:

the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, the Menila Collection in Houston, the Nemo Museum in Amsterdam, the Paul Klee Center in Bern, the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, the new wing of the Whitney Museum in New York, the new building of the Museum of Modern Art Astrup - Fearnley in Oslo ... And the office of The New York Times in New York, the buildings at Potsdamerplatz in Berlin, the concert complex "Auditorium" in Rome.

For the British, the 95-storey skyscraper The Shard (2012) in London remains the main topic of talk about modern architecture in general and Renzo Piano in particular. The exhibition focuses on 16 projects created by the master of light over the past 30 years, and a total of about a hundred are shown..