Moreau Kusunoki Frida Escobedo   France   The French studio of Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican firm Frida Escobedo Studio and AIA Ingénierie, has won the competition to carry out an overhaul of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The steel-and-glass museum built b

David Chipperfield Architects   China   An outpost of the Centre Pompidou rises on the banks of the Huangpu as part of a project to transform the industrial margin of the riverbed into a new cultural district. The museum takes up three volumes clad in iridescent recycled glass, which stand

Jakob + MacFarlane   France   Incorporated from the beginning into the list of Parisian architectural icons, the Centre Pompidou is with its mechanistic framework a building in which it is difficult to intervene. Straying from the museum’s vocabulary, the project for a restaurant

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   One of the few commissions that the Piano and Rogers studio took as a result of a controversial victory in a Pompidou competition was precisely the headquarters of IRCAM (Institute de Recherche et Cordination Acoustique/Musique). As an ironic counter

Christian de Portzamparc   France   When, more than a century ago, Émile Zola wrote a novel about the turbulent emergence of Haussmann's Paris, he made cafés an important point of reference for his characters. No one could have thought then that this invention coming from the eighteent

Lorenzo Ciccarelli   The more famous a building is, the more it is wrapped in myths and clichés, and the more we gain from those who take pains to delve into its history. The Centre Pompidou (1971-1977) is one of the iconic constructions of the 20th century. It helped re

“In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” What the young Jean Cocteau wrote in relation to Les Six may well also apply to Norman Foster: after six decades of raising buildings all over the world, numerous master

60 Years of Invention

On view through 7 August at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is a journey through the six-decade career of Norman Foster. Taking up almost 2,200 square meters of floor space, the exhibition presents 130 projects of his through an unprecedented selection

The Art Newspaper    The Centre Georges Pompidou will be opening a museum in Seoul in 2025, expanding its network of outposts that currently includes branches in Metz, Shanghai, and Málaga. The Paris-based institution has signed an agreement with the Hanwha Culture Found

Javier Escalonilla   The Centre Pompidou has organized the first monographic exhibition on the American-turned-French architect Paul Nelson, the cue being the centenary of his arrival in Paris. In this way it continues the multifaceted view of the Modern Movement that it

As it was for the likes of Gertrude Stein or Sidney Bechet, France was the main scene of the life of Paul Nelson. Attracted to the artistic circles that made Paris a party in the 1920s, the young man born in Chicago moved to the French capital to com

On view through 22 February at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is an exhibition that delves into the refreshingly refined graphic humor of Saul Steinberg, the brilliant Romanian American cartoonist who gave a new twist to illustration and the journalist

With the same expansionist strategy that led it to open branches in Málaga, Brussels, and Shanghai, the Centre Pompidou will soon be making a landing in America with the help of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which is refurbish

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   The Pompidou Centre, one of Paris’s top cultural attractions and home to Europe’s biggest modern art collection, is to close from 2023 for four years of renovations, France’s culture minister has said. Designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard R

The Art Newspaper   French government also considering option of a seven-year overhaul that would allow the Paris gallery to stay partially open...

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exhibitions, which marked the emergence of postmodernity or deconstruction, have become more political after the shock of the crisis

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Few buildings deserve an intellectual biography and the Pompidou is one of them. On the occasion of its anniversary, the historian and critic Francesco Dal Co has masterfully braided together the narratives behind this extraordinary work, where the p

First the opening of the Picasso Museum, then the arrival of part of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, turned the southern Spanish city of Málaga into an art hub on a regional scale. One can now rightly call it an art hub on a national scale

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The surreal dwells among us. Far from just being an artistic and literary movement of the past century, surrealism is a dark pulse that shakes the present. The extraordinary popular success of the Dalí exhibition at Paris’s Pompidou and Madrid’s Rein

‘Brief History of Lines’ offers an unusual approach to drawing and the trace since 1925 up to our days, exploring the line not only as a part of the drawing but also as a component of everyday life and the environment. Lines are present everywhere: t

Luis Játiva   Cuando apenas faltan tres años para el cincuentenario profesional de Richard Rogers, aparece el tercer y último volumen consagrado a la obra completa del arquitecto británico, culminando la ambiciosa monografía desarrollada por el periodista y crític

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Como su paisano Pascal, Dominique Perrault reconcilia el esprit de géométrie con el esprit de finesse; en la estela de la saga Michelin de su ciudad natal, el arquitecto de Clermont-Ferrand reúne en su trabajo tecnología y sociedad; y al igual que el

Marta García Carbonero   Cuarenta años han transcurrido ya desde que Rogers construyera junto con el Team 4 la casa en Creek Vean y la fábrica Reliance Controls, pero sus obras siguen exhibiendo la misma actitud optimista frente a la tecnología y el medio ambiente que les di

Juan Antonio Ramírez   ¿Qué es dada?, se preguntaban a sí mismos, enfáticamente, todos los dadaístas. Las respuestas que ofrecían, humorísticas y sarcásticas, sugerían su voluntad de evitar cualquier definición restrictiva. Veamos unos pocos ejemplos: «Eso que llamamos dad

Juan Antonio Ramírez   La révolution surréaliste es el título que tenía la primera revista ‘oficial’ del movimiento animado por André Breton. Pero aquel grupo había forjado sus armas en otras publicaciones periódicas anteriores, como Littérature, y no es casual que una cab

Jean-Claude Garcias   Ocurre con el Centro Pompidou como con las muñecas rusas o las cebollas: uno se pregunta siempre cuál de sus capas es la más significativa. ¿Es la envoltura, el núcleo, o acaso cualquiera de las intermedias? La campaña de ‘renovación’ del centro, emp

Luis Fernández-Galiano   En los últimos años, la desilusión con el socialismo de la era Mitterrand ha coincidido en Francia con el resurgir de un brote neomoderno que aspira a resucitar las formas heroicas y las certidumbres plásticas de los años treinta. 

Boris Hamzeian   La sfida del total design

Renzo Piano Richard Rogers   Genoa  2017  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 248 Pages 

Olivier Cinqualbre Frédéric Migayrou   Paris  2015  
Centre Pompidou   - 256 Pages