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...glut of architects. A surfeit of architects. Whatever the collective noun for architects is, there sure were a lot of them visiting the Graduate School of Design last week. Following Richard Meier earlier in the week, Renzo Piano, one of the world's foremost architects and the man responsible for the planned revamping of the Harvard University Art Museums, spoke to a packed Piper Auditorium last Thursday. Famous for his work in such major spaces as Houston's Menil Collection, Osaka's Kansai Airport and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Piano's speech attracted so large a crowd that...
...proposals presented at the community meeting would connect the Fogg and the Sackler through a double tunnel underneath Broadway. The aim of the tunnel, according to the architect Renzo Piano, is many-fold: to relieve pedestrian congestion at the intersection of Broadway and Quincy, to unify visitors' experiences of the museums, and to allow the University to transport artwork more safely between the Fogg and the Sackler...
Thanks largely to Chermayeff's passion and innovative eye, big-city aquariums are more popular than ever. His sparkling creations in Boston; Baltimore, Md.; Osaka; and Chattanooga, Tenn., have revitalized stagnant waterfronts and are pulling in huge crowds. The Genoa Aquarium, created with architect Renzo Piano, is Italy's fourth most popular tourist attraction and is drawing more visitors each year than the Uffizi...
Eight months ago, Primo Levi leaped into the stairwell outside the fourth- floor Turin apartment where his family had lived for three generations. There was little question that he killed himself intentionally. Renzo Levi said that his 67-year-old father had been depressed; friends spoke of Levi's dark moods. Yet despair was not what the outside world detected last year after Philip Roth climbed those stairs to interview Levi in his study. "He seemed to me," wrote the American novelist, "inwardly animated more in the manner of some little quicksilver woodland creature empowered by the forest's most...
Between them, Dominique de Menil, Hopps and the architect Renzo Piano have got it exactly right: this building, and the thinking behind it, comes as close to the musee imaginaire of one's hopes as one has any right to expect in America today. As a privately funded museum it is free to avoid the cliches of its bigger brethren. No boutiques, no blockbusters, no sense of competition with other museums. No sense of the sealed-off art bunker, either, with overlighted objects caught like startled animals in the glare of spotlights. Above all, none of the grandiosity and architectural...