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Renzo Piano's California AdventurePart II: San Francisco.

By Witold RybczynskiPosted Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, at 6:56 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay on Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences building. Click here to read Part I, in which Witold Rybczynski reviewed Piano's recent addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. His latest book is My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life.
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