Renzo Piano
Acting
Biography
Renzo Piano, born 14 September 1937 in Genova, is an Italian architect. His most famous buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016). He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.
Known For
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
A Brighter Tomorrow
The architect, a contemporary master, Renzo Piano. The filmmaker, another contemporary master, Carlos Saura.
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
Peter Rice...An Engineer imagines is a cinematic homage to the life and ideas of Peter Rice widely regarded as the most distinguished structural engineer of the late twentieth century. Without Rices’s innovations and collaborations with the leading architects of his time, some of the most recognizable buildings in the world would not have been possible. The film traces Rice’s extraordinary work, from his native Ireland through, London, Sydney and Paris, to his untimely and tragic death in 1992. Through a series of interviews with former colleagues, family and friends, interwoven with stunning time-lapse photography, we unfold the remarkable story of one of the great minds of the twentieth century; how man who pushed the boundaries of art and science to achieve the unimaginable. A genius who stood in the shadow of architectural icons. Until now.
An Engineer Imagines
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Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Berlin Babylon
The plot of the film is based on the large-scale reconstruction of the historical building of the HPP-2 power plant on Bolotnaya Embankment under the direction of architect Renzo Piano and the transformation of the power plant into a cultural institution and a cultural house of the V-A-C foundation, founded by Leonid Mikhelson. For five years, the process of fixing this reincarnation was carried out. The basis of the shooting method was the desire to show big events through the prism of the interaction of art and life of the construction site and the V-A-C foundation, through small details, through the people who are doing it all.
GES-2
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Il ragazzo con la Leica
Filmed in Genoa, Paris, London, New York and Athens, The Power of the Archive recounts the creation, organisation, function and planning approach of the archive of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. A place of experimentation, it’s a metaphor for a seaport; where goods come and go, each enriching its content and potential for communication.