Renzo Piano museums

Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen museum projects, beginning with the revolutionary Pompidou Center in Paris and continuing to the most current designs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo. Featured are the Menil Collection in Houston, the Beyeler Foundation on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Lush color photographs and handsome presentation drawings and plans convey the form and detail of these extraordinary buildings. Complementing the visual presentation is an essay by Victoria Newhouse, which surveys Piano's museum work and places it in a historical context. In particular, she focuses on the key elements of Piano's aesthetic: natural light, transparency, and the piazza or gathering space. All were introduced at the Pompidou Center and continue to inform the designs.

Balancing sacred and profane / Victoria Newhouse -- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris -- Alexander Calder Retrospective Exhibition, Turin, Italy -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Cité Internationale, Lyon, France -- The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas -- Cy Twombly Gallery, Houston, Texas -- Reconstruction of the Atelier Brancusi, Paris -- Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland -- Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center, Nouméa, New Caledonia -- Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Art Gallery at Lingotto, Turin, Italy -- Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland -- Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas -- Expansion of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia -- Renovation and expansion of the Morgan Library and Museum, New York -- Expansion of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Expansion of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts -- Icon House, Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway -- Expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.