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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nathan SilverPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 17.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780262691970ISBN 10: 0262691973 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 24 February 1997 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPompidou's powers; where did the design come from?; the winners; setting up in Paris; the conduct of the job; crises, panics and smooth going; toward opening night; meaning and influence. Appendix - Beaubourg's credits.ReviewsDetailed yet riveting--a well-researched, well-written,lively investigation of the creation of one of the mostimportant cultural artifacts of this century. SilverAdheres to a place and readable style that should enlightenthe general reader as well as the professional one. Suzanne Stephens, architecture critic and editor of OCULUS Author InformationNathan 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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