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Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 12–6 pm
*Closed on Wednesday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth
The Lenfest Center for the Arts was delighted to host an exhibit featuring Renzo Piano Building Workshop, developer of the Manhattanville Master Plan and designer of the Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Forum, and the Jerome L. Greene Science Center. RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Le fil rouge is a lightweight, sustainable exhibition project offering an in-depth look at selected buildings designed over the last fifty years by the RPBW. Through projects of different nature and scale, the exhibition traced the common thread that runs through drawings and models, the dialogue with specialists from every sphere of art and science, and the wonderful workshop of making that is the building site. The simple and reusable installation immersed the visitor and made walking through the exhibition feel like reading and turning the pages of a book, each panel illustrating and marking an important chapter in the RPBW story.
Established by Pritzker Prize Laureate architect Renzo Piano in 1981, Renzo Piano Building Workshop buildings are acclaimed for a singular quality of lightness and transparency, appearing both monumental and lightweight. RPBW buildings also often integrate into the landscape combining nature and architecture. The firm is currently led by 12 partners overseeing a team of 100 architects.
An accompanying 52-minute film, Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop, was shown in the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room at the following times:
Friday, June 7, 5 PM
Saturday, June 15, 5 PM
Friday, June 21, 5 PM
Saturday, June 29, 5 PM
RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Le fil rouge features:
“Prehistory” (Years ‘60–‘70)
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fondation Pathé, Paris
The Menil Collection, Houston
Kansai International Airport, Osaka
New York Times
The Shard, London
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
Emergency Surgery Children’s Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Columbia Masterplan and the buildings MBB, The Forum, Lenfest Center
Istanbul Modern Museum
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
Academy of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
Morgan Library, New York
Parco della Musica Auditorium, Rome
LACMA Los Angeles
CERN Science Gateway, Geneva
Genova San Giorgio Bridge