On May 24, at the Morgan Library and Museum in Midtown Manhattan, Victoria Newhouse presented a lecture entitled Kissing Cousins: Renzo Piano in New York and Athens. The lecture offered a fascinating comparison between the famed architect’s impressive addition to the historic Morgan Library in New York and his groundbreaking, modern masterpiece the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Athens.
Drawing on her extensive research and expertise as an architectural historian, Newhouse spoke eloquently about the similarities and differences between the two projects.
The lecture took place only a day after the release of her latest book Chaos and Culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. The book is a wonderful guide to the extraordinary project and includes 200 photographs and drawings that illustrate the development of the SNFCC from an idea through the building process and then to a functioning cultural center.
Many of the photographs and drawings were also used as projections that highlighted the compelling lecture at the Morgan.
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