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

by Nathan Silver

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262691973
• ISBN13: 9780262691970
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher