Title:
Architecture and Music:
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Seven Sites for Music

Author:
Aymeric Lorente

Date:
2002

Publisher:
Edizioni Lybra Immagine

Link:
Amazon

About:
At the opening to the public of the first two rooms of the Auditorium in Rome, Renzo Piano Building Workshop presents seven of his projects that the central theme of music. Covering 30 years of research work, and design from 1970 to the present, and this book shows that the documents, seek to highlight the close relationship between the acoustics, the music and the construction of a place to these intended. IRCAM in Paris at the Auditorium in Rome, from Europe to Oceania, from the concert hall at the cultural center, seven projects, different in their conception, but serving the same art, are presented on large monographic tables of two meters for four. thematic groups, large models, blueprints, suspended images that evoke all these places of music, are the starting point to present the architecture of the music. The book is built around the idea of ​​architecture dedicated to music retracing thirty years of internationally prominent achievements. An exciting presentation of the exhibition that accompanied the inauguration of the first rooms of the auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. A book not only addressed to specialists, pleasant and interesting. A text from the beginning of a new line of investigation, the relationship between architectural design and redesign of dedicated music venues. A design challenge where the increasingly high demand for quality of space and acoustics turns into brilliant architectural achievements, capable of synthesizing modernity and tradition.