This is the catalogue of the exhibition on display at the Parco della Musica in April 2002, to accompany the Sala Petrassi and Sala Sinopoli official opening. This exhibition included a series of images of the seven great constructions that make up what can be defined as Renzo Piano’s “musical” architecture.

The catalogue also includes passages from the discussion between sorely missed musician, Luciano Berio, who was supervisor at the Santa Cecilia National Academy at the time, Tullio Regge, a famous professor of physics at the Turin Polyclinic, and Renzo Piano himself.
The first and largest section is on the Roman Auditorium. It includes technical details and data that can be of interest to specialists as well as to the public. Then we have a section on the Auditorium Niccolò Paganini in Parma; the Theatre on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin; Jean Marie Tjibaou from Nourméa Cultural Centre in New Caledonia; photographs of the musical stage designed for the opera Prometeo di Luigi Nono, which was put on show in Venice and Milan in 1983 and 1984; the Auditorium del Lingotto, completed in Turin in 1995. The catalogue ends with a section with pictures from the Georges Pompidou National Art and Culture Centre, built in Paris between 1971 and 1977 and from the Ircam (Contemporary Institute for Musical and Acoustic Research) built next to the Centre thanks to an interdisciplinary collaboration between architecture, mathematics, acoustics and music.