Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works, Vol. 4 Tibetan Buddhism working models and rejected alternatives

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Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works, Vol. 4 Tibetan Buddhism working models and rejected alternativesAs Peter Buchanan has shown in the first three volumes of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the architect follows no fashions of form or theory, nor is he confined to a personal idiom. Instead he concerns himself with the specifics and potential of a particular situation and moment, meeting the challenges of the programme, pushing the limits of technology, and yet always responding sensitively to the topography or urban fabric of the building's site.