This second volume on Renzo Piano provides an illuminating study of the architect´s working method, followed by a presentation of his buildings and projects from the period 1987 to 1993. In an interview recorded specially for this book, Piano talks about his early career as a designer, his attitude towards technology and his continuing evolution of what Buchanan has called ´a natural architecture´. Many of the completed buildings featured in this volume are located in and around Piano´s home town of Genoa, from the soaring structures associated with the 1992 Expo in the old docks to the ground-hugging form of his own laboratory-workshop in Vesima.
