Pompidou center : symbol of freedom from authority
After readings on blogs, and many othe sources, the ideas of center pompidou is forces by French revolution. Thus support my thesis on having this public space as my main issue is freedom of art. freedom of expression and freedom of knowledge in Malaysia.
MAY IN FRANCE IN 1968
The strongest context in Center Georges Pompidou can be its political need. On account of
collapse of President Charles de Gaulle's government, a series of student occupation protested their government in 1968*, involving eleven million workers. This Pris riots emerged Charles de Gaulle's government. Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou, Prime Minister assisted to disband the assembly. Behind of this strike, there was a political philosophy, anarchism supported by The International Situationist, anarchism. The philosophy seeks to diminish or even abolish authority in the conduct of human relations, thereatening French state.
The riots had enomeroud political impact. The change of old education system(the law of university that man cannot enter woman's domitory opened up the riots.)As a result, the next President Georges Pompidou needed to initiated a Pompidou Centre project which suggested center for comtemporary art with implicit acceptance that this would be a radical and innovative place, perhaps feeding on the energies of 1968 and the widely-acclaimed youth culture of Paris. Pompidou inflated the project to become a comprehensive center for arts, including the library, a modern art museum and acoustics(to be tailor-made for Pierre Boulez, a leader of the musical avant-garde whom the French wished to attract back from USA). In other words, Centre Georges Pompidou is created as a symbol of freedom and republic by particularly people from lower classes.
Georges Pompidou demanded a design which against old society and traditional morality and change of education system. A radical and symbol of the revolution would be suitable to negotiate with students and the workers of the riots. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers won the competition from 681 entries. The essence of the proposed Center was flexibility called 'university of the street', responding to the ever changing needs of its users. It indicates freedom from authority and old society and system. The culture for lower class people, workers and students. The architects suggested "ever-changing framework as an architecture", a flexible container, including vertical circulation, the ideas of moveable floor and
interactive facade. The winning model and section shows double layered facade which hung a series of open floor, initially envisaged as moveable floor. Nonetheless, the two radical schemes are dropped from the built scheme.
Another significant scheme of this project is the large piazza. The large sloped piazza along the entrance facade is a transitional zone that fosters an exchange between the official culture of the museum and the street culture.
source : saki ichikawa
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