The Pompidou’s final architecture exhibition before it closes for renovations displays a career-spanning trove of the mischievous Austrian’s highly varied output, which runs the gamut from radical provocations to PoMo puckishness.
Although public Sunday mass was held at the fire-ravaged Gothic cathedral for the first time since April 2019, full restoration work will not be completed until 2028 at the earliest.
With only two purpose-built structures and a heavy reliance on existing venues, this year's games will be the least architectural—in terms of new construction—in decades.
On view at Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, the exhibition traces the transit system's history from the handdug tunnels of the 1890s to the automated boring machines of the 2020s.
The revamped museum is located at Palais de Chaillot, a building whose multiple transformations over the years shows that "adaptive reuse" is hardly a new concept.