The Making of Beaubourg
A Building Biography of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
$70.86
- Paperback
220 pages
- Release Date
24 February 1997
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262691970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262691973 |
| Author: | Nathan Silver |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 220 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 24 February 1997 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 239mm x 173mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The Making of Beaubourg |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“Detailed 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
About The Author
Nathan Silver
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.
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