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SUMMARY:Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou:  National Mo
 nument and Live Centre of Information.  Chronicles of idea\, project and f
 abrication\, 1968-1977
DTSTART:20211007T183000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Boris Hamzeian - LTH3 - ENAC\nThe Centre Beaubourg of Paris\, 
 now known as the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou\, co
 nceived by Piano+Rogers Architects and Ove Arup & Partners\, between 1971 
 and 1977\, represents one of the rare synthesis of the architectural\, con
 structional\, artistic\, political and cultural effervescence of the 1960s
 . The Centre Pompidou is Georges Pompidou's presidential monument designed
  to put France back at the centre of the architectural debate and to offer
  Parisians a venue dedicated to contemporary art and culture. It is the pr
 oject by Renzo Piano\, Richard Rogers\, Gianfranco Franchini and Piano+Rog
 ers Architects\, conceived as a flexible\, anti-monumental infrastructure 
 to rehabilitate the neighbourhood and act as a broadcast of information\, 
 but destined to give up that flexibility and broadcasting role following t
 he discovery of the aesthetic and expressive value of technical equipments
 . It is the manifesto for a new kind of metal structure conceived by Ted H
 appold\, Peter Rice and Lennart Grut of Ove Arup & Partners to revive the 
 special technique of steel casting and lead it to unprecedented expressive
  results. Finally\, the Centre Pompidou is the difficult attempt to hold t
 ogether the visions of Pompidou\, Piano+Rogers Architects and Ove Arup & P
 artners\, between a flexible environment and an expressive structural and 
 technical machine\, between a national monument and a popular anti-monumen
 tal infrastructure\, between technological devices serving the user and sp
 ectacular technology.\n\nOn the eve of its closure for the largest restora
 tion campaign ever carried out\, this research aims to investigate the Cen
 tre Pompidou to reconstruct its history\, resorting for the first time to 
 a scientific investigation based on the use of  all the archival sources
  accessible to researchers.\n\nOn the occasion of the public defense of hi
 s thesis\, Boris Hamzeian presents the results of his research\, questioni
 ng the Centre Pompidou through a series of decisive components of this wor
 k\, from the principle of flexibility to the question of monumentality\, t
 hrough the evolution of its technical installations and its structure.\n\n
 The presentation will be accompanied by an exhibition of archival document
 s relating to the realisation of the Centre Pompidou and an aperitif in Ha
 ll SG. \n 
LOCATION:SG 1138 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201138 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/62197801132
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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