Piano, Carlo / Piano, Renzo (text) Vidus Rosin, Tommaso (illus.)
Alla ricerca di Atlantide. Viaggio nell'architettura per ragazzi sognatori
(Looking for Atlantis. An architectural journey for young dreamers)
Milano: Feltrinelli, 2021
The sunken city of Atlantis is a very old legend. To discover its secrets, explorers, adventurers, scientists, scholars, and other zealots have again and again set out to discover the unattainable. The imagined and fictionalised Atlantis is also the starting point for this book. Elsa, the first-person narrator, travels around the world with her grandfather – the renowned architect Renzo Piano – to help people better understand architecture. The book presents not only buildings and landscapes but also people. Their journey takes them to the harbour of Genoa, as an example of Renzo Piano’s genial architectural work, to the airport on a man-made island off Osaka, or to contemporary examples of architectural design that have become city landmarks, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the pulsating district around Potsdamer Platz in the new, post-wall capital city of Berlin, or the Niarchos Foundation cultural centre in Athens. »Alla ricerca di Atlantide« is a highly recommendable information book for young readers.
From The White Ravens 2021 catalogue
