From the archives: The Pompidou Centre, 1977

By Tom Lowe2024-10-08T06:00:00

Building covers the opening of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s revolutionary Paris art centre, the first major example of an ‘inside-out’ building

Perhaps the most famous building of the late 20th century, the Pompidou Centre marked a turning point in modernist architecture. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s colourful and iconoclastic creation, completed in 1977, was a shocking departure from the austere brutalism of the 1960s and 1970s. In place of concrete and minimalist flat walls, it was covered in a dense network of brightly painted ducts and pipes.

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