Pilgrimage – Centre Georges Pompidou
I can finally see why Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers were pioneers. A lot of experimental work in the 70s, like Kisho Kuragawa’s Metabolist movement, was about celebrating and being upfront about architectural technology. The structure is clearly exposed, the building services like electricity, ventilation, water are outside and marked with bright colours. The thing is, he did it with such finesse and skill, it gives so much merit to this type of architecture and makes those ideas very convincing.
