Exhibition
Concours Beaubourg 1971
Une mutation de l'architecture
30 Jan - 22 Feb 2026
30 Jan - 22 Feb 2026
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Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Gianfranco Franchini (puis Piano + Rogers Architects) et Ove Arup & Partners, « Projet pour le concours de réalisation du Centre Beaubourg » (aujourd’hui Centre Pompidou), détail de la façade sur la place avec écrans audiovisuels pour l’information, juin 1971, Archives Historiques du Politecnico di Milano (courtesy Renzo Piano et Ruth Rogers)
In July 1971, the jury of the international architecture competition for the future Centre Pompidou, which was chaired by architect and engineer Jean Prouvé, selected the project by the team comprising Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Gianfranco Franchini and engineers from Ove Arup & Partners as the winning entry.
Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Gianfranco Franchini (puis Piano + Rogers Architects) et Ove Arup & Partners, « Projet pour le concours de réalisation du Centre Beaubourg » (aujourd’hui Centre Pompidou), détail de la façade sur la place avec écrans audiovisuels pour l’information, juin 1971, Archives Historiques du Politecnico di Milano (courtesy Renzo Piano et Ruth Rogers)
The 681 submissions crystallised the main schools driving architecture at the time, including preservers of Beaux-Arts tradition, defenders of Expressionism, emissaries of Modernism, lovers of post-war megastructures and young representatives of avant-garde movements.
Through approximately 100 archive documents, including some that have never been exhibited before from the archive collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Académie d’Architecture (plans, drawings, photographs, models, etc.), the exhibition reviews this fertile period and highlights the lasting effects of the “Beaubourg competition” on the discipline and profession of architecture.
Free admission subject to availability of seats
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When
30 Jan - 22 Feb 2026
12pm - 8pm, every mondays, thursdays, fridays, saturdays, sundays
Partners
Exposition coproduite par L'Académie d'Architecture et le Centre Pompidou, en collaboration avec École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Saint-Étienne – ENSASE
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