An intimate tour with Renzo Piano himself around his key buildings.Edited and written by Renzo Piano

• A unique opportunity to experience an intimate tour with Renzo Piano himself around his key buildings
• Personal text and 200 colour photographs take the reader from the exterior to the interior of each building, frame by frame
• Features 25 built projects, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Beyeler Foundation in Basel and the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia
• Published at a time when the Renzo Piano Workshop is completing many buildings and...

This stunning photographic essay traces the development of Renzo Piano's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a multifunctional complex for arts, education, and entertainment opening in 2017 in Athens. Photographer Yiorgis Yerolymbos finds intrigue and beauty in the grit of the construction site, where for nearly a decade he has meticulously recorded the ephemeral forms that underlie and foretell the shape of the future landmark. Deriving its title from architectural orthographic drawings, Orthographs tracks the progress of the building's construction site against Piano's...