World-class architect Renzo Piano draws on nature to create a structure that defines a natural history museum for the 21st century. Combining Piano's signature transparency design with a green roof evoking its surroundings, San Francisco's new California Academy of Sciences provides a model for sustainability, and sets a benchmark for how people use, operate and interact with public buildings. watch
Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff takes a look at Renzo Piano's new design for the Morgan Library in New York. (Produced by Erik Olsen) watch
Season 3, Episode 5: Characters fuel the 20th-century revolution changing America's museums; host Susan Stamberg. watch
