Very beautiful text by famous Italian architect RENZO PIANO. We hope you find it as inspirational as we do!
One of
the oldest challenge for people has
always been to create and to build along
with discovering, navigating, cultivating the fields...
Being an
architect is a noble profession if it's done well. Doing well
means to understand and to listen. Art of listening is a complex art. It's
'difficult' because the voices that often have more things to say are
discrete and thin...
Listening
is not ' obeying' , listening is not finding compromises, it means ' to
listen ' and then try to figure out the best possible projects.
To do for
others- it was once said -to achieve a common good, we must always remember
that making architecture is building buildings for people, universities,
museums, schools, halls for concerts, all these places have to become
places against barbarisation ...places of art.
Art has
always shone in the eyes of those who were prone to it.
To create
with thoughtfulness 'cause the earth has revealed and
warned us about ours fragility'. For this I do not
believe in nuclear power and instead I strongly believe in renewable energy ...
Italy has so much sun and wind ...
Making beauty, or
at least try to make it...
The beauty is
impregnable, you reach out the hand and art escapes. If you define art as the
Greeks did ... WHEN THE BEAUTY AND ' GOOD' ARE TOGETHER then everything becomes
possible.
BEAUTY AND THE
'USEFULNESS' put together can win against formalism , they can win the
academy ...
To achieve SILENCE,
to build emotions, architecture seeks silence, the emptiness in which our
consciousness can be find. Silence is a
bit like the darkness, we must have the courage to see it ... and then
slowly begin to see the profile of things.
So the architecture
is an art too, an art of creating places for silence, for meditation...
We have to allow
young people to create, we have to put our self 'aside, we need to
enhance the talent, politics needs to do public contests, there are so many
young talents that have nothing to do...
The politics
is afraid of "talents",
because 'a talent gives you the freedom' and the strength to rebel...
Young people must go and travel, they
must leave, but out of curiosity, not out of despair and then they have
to come back home. TO GO AND THEN TO RETURN ... they must go to
understand how 'the rest of the world" is made, but also
because of something more important than that- THEY MUST GO TO GET
TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES...
Renzo Piano - cosa significa "FARE"
Translation from Italian to English by INVITATION TO INSPIRATION. You can find here the original conversation with an architect Renzo Piano.
Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center ( Nouméa, New Caledonia 1991 ) designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano.
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| The traditional Kanak Great House in conical shape
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Piano was inspired by traditional Kanak architecture drawing upon the shape of the interior skeleton of traditional houses for his contemporary interpretation in laminated wood and metal. One of the characteristics of the project is an investigation of the texture of materials: we have used laminated wood and natural wood, concrete and coral, aluminum castings and glass panels, tree bark and stainless steel, always in a quest for richness and complexity of detail... Light and air flow freely through each.
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| A model of the Kanak house or pavilion or Case planned in the Cultural
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"expressing the tradition of the Pacific in modern language"
The center is composed of ten "houses", all of different sizes and with different functions intended as a celebration of Kanak culture. The visual link between these and traditional Kanak villages is made not just through the arrangement of the constructions, but through their form as well.
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