Their innovative project won the international competition anonymously, which was launched by President Georges Pompidou, who commissioned the construction. The Center is named after him.
President Pompidou wanted to modernize society and believed that new architectural spaces were needed to accomplish his plan.
The construction started in 1971 and caused allots of debates but finally became one of the symbols of Paris.
Besides the National Museum of Modern Art, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, the Center Pompidou houses the Public Information Library and the centre for music and acoustic research.
About our cultural guide in a nutshell: Since 2020, Anna Bakhlina has been an independent architect in Paris
Until recently, Anna was a key member of the design team for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art SANAA, the 2010 Pritzker Prize-winning bureau in Tokyo.
In 2016, as a leading architect at atelier Tekuto, she was involved in the development of the Boltun project, which won the annual national Japan Concrete Institute award as the best concrete building of the year in Japan.
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A whole world on the tip of a pencil. The story of an artist who proved that true art has no limits and that it is never too late to start all over again.
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A whole world on the tip of a pencil. The story of an artist who proved that true art has no limits and that it is never too late to start all over again.
