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A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most
iconic buildings The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called
Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the
quintessence of a modern building, and a model for what a museum
can be. In 1971, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, together with the
engineering firm Ove Arup & Partners, won an international
architecture competition with their innovative and irreverent
design. Completed in 1977, the building was at first received
skeptically by critics, yet it was quickly embraced by the public
as a beloved monument of the modern city of Paris. This lively
intellectual biography of the building explores its history and the
reasons for its success, from its genesis as a politically
calculated response to Paris's turbulent 1968 student protests to
the role played by architects in its construction, as well as the
historical influences and the engineering solutions that inform its
design. A key reason for the Centre Pompidou's success indeed lies
in its ability to channel architectural memory, connecting it
powerfully to Paris's historic urban fabric. This essential text on
one of the twentieth century's most significant buildings is
accompanied by a portfolio of rare drawings and photographs.
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of
New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered
the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic.
But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the
surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar
art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the
museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright
established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the
project. Over the next 17 years, Wright continuously clashed with
his clients over the cost and the design, a conflict that extended
to the city of New York and its cultural establishment. Against all
odds, Wright held fast to his radical design concept of an inverted
ziggurat and spiraling ramp, built with a continuous beam-a shape
recalling the form of an hourglass. Construction was only completed
in 1959, six months after Wright's death. The building's initial
critical response ultimately gave way to near-universal admiration,
as it came to be seen as an architectural masterpiece. This
essential text, offering a behind-the-scenes story of the
Guggenheim along with a careful reading of its architecture, is
beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, including plans,
drawings, and rare photographs of the building under construction.
This unique publication, catalogue of the Holy See Pavilion at the
XVI International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale,
presents ten chapels designed by ten of the most important
contemporary architects whose work was inspired by the chapel in
the forest built in the Stockholm Cemetery, in 1920, by the famous
architect Gunnar Asplund. The chapel is defined as a place of
orientation, encounter, and meditation created in a natural setting
of a vast woodland and regarded as a metaphor of the pilgrimage of
life. In light of this, the architects of the Holy See Pavilion
have worked without following the commonly recognized reference
models, as the number and variety of the projects presented
illustrates.
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