Chaos and Culture: Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens

by Victoria Newhouse

Book Overview

In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway, the Greek economy collapsed.

In Chaos and Culture, Victoria Newhouse weaves a fascinating narrative of how a philanthropist and an extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580934889
• ISBN13: 9781580934886
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.2" x 10.9"