VINCENT VAN DUYSEN

文森特·范·杜伊森(Vincent van Duysen)

ON CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS

巴黎蓬皮杜中心

“I admire its boldness and openness as a building that participates with — and is woven into — its city, its place, its time. It was without any respect for the environment, a cultural factory where you could observe important modern art collections, a superexpressive, very colorful, complex building. It was seen as a rejection of the neighborhood, the Marais, and of Paris itself. Paris stands for French stone and light gray rooftops and beautiful natural colors, and all of a sudden you have got this architectural machine. On the other hand, the building has this democratic purpose because it attracts how many millions every year, more than the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. I couldn’t take my eyes off it when I was studying architecture. It reversed the typical model of a museum into something that was engaging and inviting to the public. Architecture at that time needed to do things differently, like a shock. The shock liberates a lot of emotions and perceptions.”

“我钦佩它的勇敢与开放，这座建筑参与——和勾织——到了它所在的城市、地点和时间中。它完全不考虑环境，它是一座文化工厂，你到这里来，是来看重要的现代艺术收藏的，这是一个极富表现力的、非常多彩而复杂的建筑。它抛弃了自己所在的‘玛莱’区以及巴黎本身。巴黎的特征是法式的石头和浅灰色屋顶，美丽的自然色彩，可是突然之间冒出这么一台建筑机器。另一方面，它又有着一个民主意图，因为它每年会吸引数百万人前来。当年学建筑的时候，我对它很是痴迷。它推翻了典型意义上的博物馆形态，建立了一种让公众觉得亲近而诱人的模型。当时的建筑需要做一些不一样的事情，就像一次休克。能释放大量情感与知觉的休克。”