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| >.2 Introduction |
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1 From Georges Pompidou's Monument At Les Halles To The Art And Cultural Center At Plateau Beaubourg |
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1.1 A "Monument En Hauteur" At Les Halles For The Ministry Of Finance |
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1.2 The Metamorphosis Of An Idea: "A Monument To Contemporary Art And Thought" |
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26 | (6) |
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1.3 The Inclusion Of The Musee Du Xx' Siecle And The Bibliotheque Des Halles In The Presidential Monument |
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32 | (12) |
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1.4 The Idea Of An International Jury Of Architects And Users To Capture The Young Avant-Garde Generation |
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44 | (2) |
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1.5 Loste's Vision: From Musee Monument To Musee Laboratoire |
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46 | (4) |
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1.6 Lombard's "Program Mation": An Advanced Method Of Concerted Design |
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50 | (2) |
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1.7 Bordaz And The Delegation For The Realization Of Thecentrebeaubourg |
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52 | (1) |
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1.8 The Final Jury: Challenging Balances And A Trojan Horse |
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53 | (7) |
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1.9 Prouve, Johnson And Pompidou, Three Divergent Visions For One Center |
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2 Happold And The Quest For A Complex Cast-Steel Structure |
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2.1 The Question Of Steel Casting For The Design Of Cutting-Edge Civil Structures |
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3 Piano + Rogers + Franchini = An Avant-Garde School System For The City's Restoration |
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3.1 Early Experiments On Industrial Components, Shells, Light Roofs, And Urban Integration |
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3.2 The Hypothesis Of A Collaboration On A Pioneering School System |
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3.3 The Establishment Of Piano+Rogers Architects |
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108 | (4) |
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3.4 Flexible Devices For An Integrated And Democratic Environment |
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3.5 The Burrell Gallery: First Thoughts On A Translucent Container For Art |
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4 Early Sketches For The Centre Beaubourg: A Flexible Urban System For Information |
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4.1 Negotiations Over Participation In The Competition, Rogers's Hesitation And The Reference To The Free University Of Berlin |
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4.2 The Launch Of The Competition Works And The Return Of Franchini |
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152 | (4) |
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4.3 A Piazza For The Plateau Beaubourg: A Magnet For The Metropolitan Flow |
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156 | (2) |
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4.4 Tower Or Bar? Studies For A Scenic Device |
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158 | (2) |
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4.5 The Rarefaction Of The Framework And Facade Into A Vertical And Iconic "Space Frame" |
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160 | (6) |
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4.6 The Transformation Of The Space Frame Into A Scenic Device For Transmitting Information |
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5 The Final Submission: The Live Centre Of Information |
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5.1 A Node Of A Global Network To Share Information With Paris, France And Beyond |
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5.2 The Sunken Square And The Monumentalization Of The Subterranean Flows Of Paris |
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182 | (10) |
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5.3 The Reduction Of The Building To A Sequence Of "Large, Flexible Uninterrupted Floor Areas" |
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5.4 The 3-Dimensional Wall And The Friction Collar: Two Inventions At The Service Of Flexibility |
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5.5 The Layering Of The 3-Dimensional Wall: A Device For Information And Entertainment |
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5.6 The Circulation System Of Beaubourg: A Functional And Scenic Machine |
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5.7 An Air-Conditioning System For Artificial And Ever-Changing Microclimates |
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5.8 The Final Plans For The Competition Project |
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5.9 The Difficulties Of Sending The Competition Documents By Royal Mail |
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6 The Selection Process: The Grand And Prestigious Gesture And The Architectural Simplicity |
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6.1 682 Visions For The Centre Beaubourg |
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6.2 The Technical Commission's Preliminary Analysis |
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6.3 The Orientation Of Jury Members In The First Round Of Selection |
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6.4 The First Selection Between Flexible Containers, Colossal Suspended Platforms And Urban Matrices |
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6.5 The Second Selection: Toward A Compromise Between Recovering The Tradition Of Cast-Iron Architecture And The Search For A Flexible Device |
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286 | (12) |
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6.6 The Ambiguous Victory Of Architectural Simplicity |
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298 | (10) |
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<.1 Beaubourg: An Infrastructure For The Next Five Hundred Years - Renzo Piano In Dialogue With Boris Hamzeian |
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<.2 Pompidou's First Draft For The Creation Of A Monument On The Plateau Beaubourg |
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<.3 Pompidou's Second Draft For The Creation Of A Monument On The Plateau Beaubourg |
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320 | (2) |
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<.4 Richard Rogers's Memorandum for the Participation to Beaubourg Competition |
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322 | (2) |
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<.5 Winners' Competition Report On The Centre Beaubourg |
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