The Making of Beaubourg: A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris - Couverture souple

Silver, Nathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262691973 ISBN 13 : 9780262691970

Editeur : MIT Press, 1997

Synopsis

This is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the most controversial and supremely 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 fascinating and insightful "building biography." Not just a book about a building but about the making of a building, this fresh, heterodox 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, Silver reveals, was unlike anything that had ever been built. A realization of ideals and aspirations of it 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 that other architects have to come to terms with.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nathan Silver is an architect, writer, and former architecture school head living in London. He is the author of Lost New York, nominated for the National Book Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262691973
• ISBN 13: 9780262691970
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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