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The Making of Beaubourg - A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Making of Beaubourg - A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Making of Beaubourg
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This is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the
most controversial and public buildings of the century, was
designed and built. Nathan Silver's detailed account of the Centre
Pompidou - still called Beaubourg by its designers, and by
Parisians - takes the form of a "building biography." Not just a
book about a building but also about the making of a building, this
means of inquiry is a holistic reading of the intricate process of
creating architecture in contemporary society that brings to light
its human story, encompassing its stylistic, historical, technical
and social aspects. Beaubourg was unlike anything that had ever
been built. A realization of ideals and aspirations of an
architectural generation, a rethinking of fundamental precepts of
design and construction, it took nothing for granted, and it has
since become one of the most popular tourist attractions in Europe
- flaunting new principles with which other architects have had to
come to terms. The text's discovery of this building is never
separated from the process, politics, crises and controversies of
its making. Based on interviews conducted at the time with all of
the key players, Silver presents a behind-the-scenes narrative of
design process and decision making that he weighs with bold
critical scrutiny. Silver explores the saga of the designers'
battles, over a period of five and a half years, to maintain
control and build within budget. He starts from the beginning when
the British/Italian/Anglo-Danish design team, including architects
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano and engineers Peter Rice and Ted
Happold of Ove Arup, took a long-shot gamble on an international
competition. Silver then details the design team's conception of a
building with flexible plans and adjustable elevations, describes
the development of a structural system as inventive as that of the
Eiffel Tower and equally as public in its urban rhetoric, and
concludes with the triumph of Beaubourg's popular and critical
reception.
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