Today we are opening a series of art walks in the French capital. Our guide will be the professional architect Anna Bakhlina.
Anna will talk about the most remarkable contemporary buildings in Paris, theirs story and curious facts of their creation.
We start with one of the most conceptual and innovative buildings not only of its time but of all architect projects in Paris, the Center Pompidou which is known as the National Museum of Modern Art.
This postmodern complex was designed by the duo of extremely young and ambitious architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano.
Their innovative project won anonymously the international competition which was launched by the President Georges Pompidou who commissioned the construction. The Center is named after him.
The president Pompidou wanted to modernize the 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:
From 2020 Anna Bakhlina is an independent architect in Paris
She began her career as a professional volunteer and a researcher, in the international settlement of Auroville in South India.
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.
Over the past 2 years in collaboration with buro LOCAL, Anna worked on a joint Franco-Russian research project for the housing sector in Russia.
