Tonight on Rai5's behind-the-scenes look at Renzo Piano's workshop

It is entirely dedicated to the great architect Renzo Piano the episode of Art Night that will be aired tonight, Wednesday, January 18 at 9:15 p.m.: in fact, the artistic container hosted by Neri Marcorè presents, in premiere on Rai 5, the documentary Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop, a film by Francesca Molteni, directed by Claudia Adragna and Davide Fois, which follows the work of one of the most extraordinary architectural firms in the world. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop is a laboratory, or rather an Italian-style workshop. A place where research, experimentation, and collective production take place. The charisma of the Architect is balanced by the activism of the working group. Here, models are created and discussed, like reasoning made with hands; because, as Piano always says, “if something doesn’t stand on its own, it’s not worth the effort to make it.” They work as a team, as in a construction site: “a construction site of ideas next to the construction site of hands and the construction site of stones.”

“We were able to enter as attentive spectators,” explained Francesca Molteni, “into one of the most important architectural firms in the world. What goes on in here is the miracle of creation: from the design sketches to the strong physicality of a building site under construction. Behind it all, there is the presence of Renzo Piano, an inspirer of ideas, with two of his greatest qualities: being a mentor while still managing to distance himself from a project, and his extraordinary ability to visualize the problem and find the right solution.”

“Creativity,” says Renzo Piano, “is a miracle that exists only when you know how to share it. Our studio is a special place where this miracle happens every day.”

The documentary showcases the RPBW method: what happens in the Punta Nave studios in Genoa and Paris, on construction sites - in Europe, Asia, America - in internal studio meetings, in interviews with consultants and clients. Five projects were chosen and followed for 18 months at different stages of conception and realization: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, opening in 2021, a construction site with high representational content (the imagination factory); CERN’s Science Gateway in Geneva, Switzerland, still under construction, a construction site with high community content (the science factory); the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris-Saclay, completed in 2020, a research construction site in a large park with high educational content (the knowledge factory); the SNF Thessaloniki General Hospital in Sparta, Greece, a sustainable construction site with high humanitarian content (the health factory); and the Marunouchi Tokio Marine in Tokyo, a technology construction site in the city center with high symbolic content (the labor factory). Five different places, three continents, five social and environmental contexts that have little in common except the RPBW method.

Art Night is a program by Silvia De Felice, and by Emanuela Avallone, Massimo Favia, Alessandro Rossi, directed by Andrea Montemaggiori.

Tonight on Rai5's behind-the-scenes look at Renzo Piano's workshop

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