A conversation with architect Renzo Piano

with Renzo Piano
in Art & Design
on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 * * * * *

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A conversation with architect Renzo Piano about his recent projects: the Art Institute of Chicago and California Academy of Sciences

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    1. GK2  11/04/2009 03:18 AM Report

      REMant, why the agitation? 2000 years old or not, philosophy is meant to hold through time. A new social context, so new "reason." Out of it, a new "beauty" may be born. (They both hoped). "Nature" is always nature.

    2. janeeyre  10/10/2009 03:04 PM Report

      Dear writer, "Remnant",

      You're a curiosity. You post everywhere on this site. Why? The demonstration of enlightenment is not through bravado and overt calling attention to it, but rather silent grace. You make me chuckle, keep on being you. To the other writer, your google education is more than valid -it's authentic.

    3. Hobnob  07/25/2009 01:58 AM Report

      To aid REMant, note Nicomachus of Gerasa in chapter 4 of his Introduction to Arithmetic.

      "For example, 'animal' is naturally antecedent to 'man,' for abolish 'animal' and 'man' is abolished; but if 'man' be abolished, it no longer follows that 'animal' is abolished at the same time."

      Now Nicomachus wasn't a "stoic" essentially, as he was a self-styled Pythagorean, but that quote is a definite precursor to Darwinian evolution.

      I heart Chicago.

    4. datum  07/04/2009 11:40 AM Report

      Great interview. Would have liked to hear a bit more about his studio setup.

    5. doodahdaze  05/26/2009 10:35 AM Report

      Architects all seem to say the same thing(s) over and over again, with the philosophizing of WHY they do and did what they did and do. I guess they have to verbalize a "song and dance" for the clientele to keep themselves working... I like it when I see something truly original and beautiful and functional; that's about the extent of my "song and dance".<smile>

    6. CanScot89  05/23/2009 11:01 PM Report

      some view jesus as an itinerant stoic.. but they dont know shit.

    7. tartufe  05/21/2009 03:58 PM Report

      Whoa REM. Cut us some slack. Hobbes and Locke a coupla standups on the tonight show, right? And Hellen, was she a barmaid down on the corner?

      [Just jealous, as I haven't a clue what a stoic is. Hope my matriculation at Google's still valid.]

    8. REMant  05/21/2009 02:24 PM Report

      The philosophy he is talking about has existed in the Western tradition for more than 2000 yrs in Stoicism. In it nature and beauty and reason are one, and all things must fit, including man. Stoicism has been underestimated, even overlooked, in our histories of thought, but it was the pervasive influence until about 100 yrs ago. It was undoubtedly behind the Reformation, and is the key to really understanding philosophers often termed empiricists like Hobbes and Locke, religious figures like Edwards, and even Darwin, not to mention the founders of our country. The best discussion of it I know of is by A. A. Long in his book Hellenistic Philosophy.

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