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ACADEMY

MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES

Lia Piano and Giovanna Langasco

ISBN 978-88-6264-026-8

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Publication: 1 APRIL 2024 (LATE)
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ISBN: 9788862640268
Price: £42.50
Binding: Paperback

Format: 280 x 280 mm
Extent: 192 pp
Illustrated: Fully illustrated
Thema: AM Architecture

In this new book, Renzo Piano, tells the story of the birth of the
new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the most important
cinema museum in the world.

Born in the famous “Miracle Mile”, in the heart of Los Angeles,
At the corner of Willshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. The
museum preserves the 1939 former May Company department
store and gives it new life with the spherical building, the 1000
seats David Geffen Theatre and the Dolby Family Terrace
overlooking Hollywood.

The book is published by the Renzo Piano Foundation and is a
Language: English / Italian new volume in the monographic series dedicated to the iconic
projects created by Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building
Workshop it describes in numerous images the entire path of the
demolition of the original building and construction of the new
museum. The story is told chronologically through drawings,
previously published sketches, models, prototypes, annotations
and site photos.

The book represents a travel notebook that accompanies the
reader in every phase of that extraordinary adventure that is the
profession of designing and constructing building, and Renzo
Piano says in the book, that “The world of cinema also fascinates
me because of the way it works: to make a good film, many
different factors have to combine and work together. A good story
is not enough, you need a good director, good actors, a good
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