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page015from Building IdeasTwentieth Century Architecture – The Dominanceof the Machine
The First layer consists of the buildingthat set the pattern for the current love affair between the world’s commercialand civic institutions and the idea of the building as a machine – the PompidouCentre in Paris, completed in 1977. Designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Pianotogether with the engineer Ted Happold, the building responded to the demandsof the competition brief for what we now refer to as a “mediatheque”,containing art galleries, temporary exhibitions, library, café and a research centre formusic and acoustics. The competition drawings show not a building so much as ahuge steel grid structure hung with escalators and giant cinema-screens facinga plaza- here the functions also seem to have migrated to the space outside,along with the bones and guts of the building. In the competition report thearchitects describe the structure as a “live centre of information” connectedto a network of other centres, such as universities and town halls, across thecountry. With the plaza as a gathering place and the façade as a display board, thebuilding is conceived as a means of engagement with information, rather than anobject of contemplation in its own right. With its moveable floors and vastclear-span spaces, the whole thing was set up as a mechanical instrument forthe efficient execution of cultural exchange. The subsequent popularity of thePompidou Centre among visitors to the French capital has much to do with itsshock value as an architectural novelty, as well as its use as a viewingplatform with a vista over the city, rather than its designers’ intention ofproviding a “neutral” container for cultural activities. While in the publicperception it still stands out as a spectacular intervention in the otherwiserather staid Parisian street scene, the building has not been so kindlyreceived in the circles of architectural and cultural criticism, as will becomeclearer later in this discussion. The reasons for its lukewarm reception insome quarters were partly due to the history of the ideas behind it and thefact that as a concept it had been anticipated some years earlier in the workof the British Archigram group, in a series of unbuilt but
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