RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP
Panel Discussion and Film Screening
Saturday, July 16 | 5:00PM
Harbourfront Centre Theatre
231 Queens Quay West | Toronto ON
The exhibition Piece by Piece: Inside the Renzo Piano Building Workshop will be available for viewing before and after this event
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… Creativity is a miracle that exists only when you know how to share it. Our studio is a special place, where this miracle happens every day. From a letter by Renzo Piano |
THE FILM
Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop
With access for several months to one of the most important architectural firms in the world, the filmmakers saw that the Renzo Piano Building Workshop is a succession of meetings, phone calls, project reviews, decisions and second thoughts. Facing unexpected events and difficulties together. In Genoa, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles they witnessed, as silent spectators, the miracle of creation, from project sketches to the strong physicality of a construction site. More than 100 architects and collaborators work together at every latitude to redesign the face of our cities – museums, hospitals, schools, waterfronts, and skyscrapers.
And then, the meeting with Renzo Piano himself; a master, inspirer of ideas, with his extraordinary ability to distance himself from a project, in order to visualize the problem and find the right solution.
This film is an attempt to restore some fragments of an everyday life hidden behind the figure of a great architect.
A Q&A with the film’s director, Claudia Adragna and the film’s producer, Francesca Molteni, will follow the screening.
THE PANEL DISCUSSION
Civic Architecture
Prior to the screening of the documentary Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop, editor-in-chief of AZURE Magazine, Elizabeth Pagliacolo will moderate a panel discussion on civic architecture with Giorgio Bianchi and Amaury Greig of Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Silvio Baldassara, Chairman of Toronto architectural firm NORR, also involved in the New Toronto Courthouse project.
FILM INFORMATION
A film by Francesca Molteni
Curated by Fulvio Irace
Directed by Claudia Adragna and Davide Fois
Produced by Muse Factory of Projects
Runtime: 52 minutes
Year of production: 2021
Country: Italy
Language: French, English, Italian
Subtitles: English
Presented in partnership by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, Harbourfront Centre and ICFF