Architect Renzo Piano talks new building plans
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers an event about architect Renzo Piano’s plans for the Agora Institute building at Johns Hopkins.
- The News-Letter reported that Piano, University President Ronald J. Daniels and business partner Mark Carroll discussed the planned building at a Mason Hall event.
- The paper reported that the institute aims to host civic discussion, while the Stavros Niarchos Foundation donated $150 million for an approximately 40,000-square-foot building.
- The article says Carroll linked the campus landscape to the building’s design, and Piano said its connection with nature would be central.
- The reporter writes that the space will include the Academic Anchor, Agora Lab and Agora Conversation, and that audience members asked Piano about his earlier projects.
- The article adds that Piano described architecture as making shelter and designing cities, and said architects should incorporate change into their designs.
- According to the article, student Mohammed Mumtaz and SGA Vice President AJ Tsang said Piano’s involvement could inspire students and help connect Hopkins with Baltimore communities.