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FROM Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano's cinematic design for the Academy Museum Architect Renzo Piano, speaking to journalists at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Photo by Avishay Artsy. Renzo Piano once dreamed of being a filmmaker but he abandoned that idea and became an architect instead, going on to design the Pompidou Center, the new Whitney Museum, the Shard and numerous other global landmarks. Now he applies a "cinematic" approach to the creation of architectural experience -- and explained how when DnA met him at the site of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, currently under construction at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, in the old May Company building. DnA also asked museum director Kerry Brougher about the recent upheaval in Hollywood over sexual assault allegations. Brougher explains how the "dream factory," as he calls the museum, might address this dark chapter in the Academy's history.
Renzo Piano's Resnick Pavilion On October 2, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Resnick Pavilion opens to the public. The 45,000 square foot gallery is the newest art space at LACMA and the latest building on the campus to be designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Critics have already nicknamed the Resnick the "Baby Piano" since it indeed looks like the smaller sibling of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum , which opened in 2008. LACMA Director Michael Govan discusses how it fits into his art and architecture vision for the campus, and architecture writer Sam Lubell explains why Piano is the go-to architect for so many art museums.
BCAM Comes to Town BCAM east façade, Installation of Urban Light Chris Burden, December, 2007 BCAM detail of glass core, north façade January, 2008, © Weldon Brewster BCAM southeast façade, BCAM Born scrim John Baldessari, January 2008 Installation of Urban Light Chris Burden, January, 2008 All images 2008 © Museum Associates, LACMA unless otherwise noted
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