The evolution of the cast node of the Pompidou Centre: From the 'friction collar' to the 'gerberette'
Autor(en): |
Boris Hamzeian
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Medium: | Tagungsbeitrag |
Sprache(n): | Englisch |
Tagung: | 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium |
Veröffentlicht in: | Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories [2 vols.] |
Seite(n): | 715-723 |
Jahr: | 2018 |
Abstrakt: | The paper is devoted to a decisive chapter of the construction history of the twentieth century: one of the most important masterpieces of the contemporary steelworks, the Centre Beaubourg, now the Centre National d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou. Thanks to the availability of previously unpublished documentary records and to interviews with some of the protagonists of the design and construction of this building, it is finally possible to retrace the origins and evolution of the most significant detail of the structure of the Centre Beaubourg: the cast steel piece that later came to be known as the “gerberette”. |