The Live Centre of Information: From Pompidou to Beaubourg (19681971)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Live Centre of Information: From Pompidou to Beaubourg (19681971)
By (Author) Boris Hamzeian
Preface by Laurent Le Bon
Introduction by Roberto Gargiani
Afterword by Renzo Piano
Actar Publishers
Actar Publishers
15th June 2023
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 193mm, Height 236mm
Description
The Live Centre of Information: From Pompidou to Beaubourg (1969- 1971) unpacks the history behind one of the most iconic buildings of contemporary architecture.
On July 19, 1971, Jean Prouv presented the winning design of the future Centre Pompidou in Paris to an astonished audience. The projects architects, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Gianfranco Franchini, were considered unknowns; its sponsors, the engineers at Ove Arup & Partners, were simply forgotten; the projects idea of a Live Centre of Information was denigrated as a metallic dam in the heart of Paris; the jury was presumed to have been dominated by the charismatic Philip Johnson and the man who initiated the competition, President of the Republic Georges Pompidou, to have been forced to bend to the jurys will. Fifty years after those events, it is time to analyze these false certainties through the first chronological and documentary reconstruction of the genesis of the Centre Pompidou.
