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For architecture geeks, this is a fairly comprehensive critical look at the Centre from 1977.

‘Pompidou cannot be perceived as anything but a monument’

Reyner Banham discusses the roles of Megastructure, Archigram and modern technology in Pompidou’s design, 1977

"The Centre reflects the supreme moment of technological euphoria in Western society: the moment when we genuinely believed that ‘freedom’ was to be got by providing ourselves with endless power-supplied facility: with servicing which would be so elaborate and so heavily duplicated that you could do anything you want, any where, at any time. We are wiser now; for we know that even if our resources allowed this sort of indulgence, the political machinery we would have to forget to operate it would be so offensive that it would remove true freedom from the face of the earth."

https://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/pompidou-cann...

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(The Walking City - Archigram)

https://archigramwalkingcity.weebly.com/