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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:09:19 +0530
In contrast to America, young and little-known European designers often
have a good chance to win plum commissions through frequent design
competitions. (One such competitive program, Europan, is open only to
architects under 40.) That's how Rogers got his first big break. He and
his partner at the time, Renzo Piano, beat out 681 architects in 1971 to
build their brash and colorful design for the Pompidou Center in Paris.
Once a controversial upstart in a crumbling ancient neighborhood, the
Pompidou now looks like an old friend, a fine example of new Europe and
old, living side by side.
cont'd....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17660006/site/newsweek/
EUROPAN's objective is to assist the young architects of Europe in
developing their ideas and disseminating them on strategic sites
proposed by municipalities or developers. The general topic of
EUROPAN, European urbanity, answers to a demand of European citizens.
« Urbanity » is a common way of living the city but also a will to
reflect upon the heterogeneity of its forms related to the diversity
of uses, and to create public spaces to favour encounters among people
in places they share. This Web site gives information and the means of
answering in the 19 simultaneous national competitions of the session
on 74 different sites.
http://www.europan-europe.com/