ABSTRACT
The Renzo Piano Building Workshop has been involved in many projects for temporary buildings. Piano views impermanent buildings as just another part of mainstream architecture, and his design approach as part of the same discipline. Clearly, all architecture is to some extent temporary, even socalled permanent buildings may not last for very long and the idea of bringing flexibility and longterm adaptability to these structures is important. He also believes that experimental architecture is most commonly realised in response to unusual briefs and these are frequently for buildings based in temporary locations or with impermanent uses.
