L'épopée Beaubourg. De la genèse à l'ouverture (1971-1978)

Description

In 1971, Claude Mollard joined the small construction team of the Centre Pompidou, which he left in 1978 as Secretary General of an institution with over 1,000 employees that welcomed nearly 10 million visitors in its first year. Revolutionary architecture, a cultural institution unprecedented in the world, a popular and international success, a colossal project conceived and completed in six years.

For seven years, he kept a daily journal of this great adventure of the Fifth Republic. Fifty years later, this journal reveals the behind-the-scenes story of this feat: the encounter of individuals with rich, contradictory temperaments, grappling with repeated crises. A drama, a comedy, almost a perfect screenplay with unity of action, time, and place. A daring architecture, pushing the boundaries of what was technically and financially feasible.

This book, written in a lively style, plunges us into "The Beaubourg Affair," or the secrets of the most emblematic cultural project undertaken by France since the birth of the Louvre Museum.