Chapter ThreeThe Competition: The President, the Jury, and the Jesters

Dal Co, Francesco

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Chapter Three
The Competition: The President, the Jury, and the Jesters

Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument

~Reyner Banham published the article “Zoom Wave Hits Architecture” in the March 3, 1966, issue of New Society; the same year, Time announced that “in a decade dominated by youth, London has burst into bloom. It swings: it is the scene.” The liveliness of this scene had not faded when at the end of 1970 or the start of 1971 Ted...

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Francesco Dal Co

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.53-66

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00259.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21767

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--France--Paris--History--20th centuryQuartier Beaubourg (Paris, France)Architecture, Modern--France--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryCentre Georges PompidouPiano, RenzoRogers, Richard, 1933-2021City planning--France--Paris--History--20th century

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