Biblioteca nacional de francia francois mitterrand biography

Inarchitect Dominique Perraultaged only 36, was the winner of the international competition. The project, which was innovative because of its architecture and its urban settlement, was the founding act of the development of a new neighborhood of Paris.

Biblioteca nacional de francia francois mitterrand biography

Inthe Research Library celebrates the 20th anniversary of its full public opening. It goes back over a creation process imbued with intense and fruitful debates between andwith the involvement of numerous collaborators and with the various experiments that punctuated its conception and achievement.

The exhibition path, divided in four major sections, invites visitors to discover the unknown secrets of the whole project, from its architecture to its urban settlement, from the creation of the garden to the various furniture elements.

The original scenography - an open plan environment made of hanging mesh strips and immersive screenings which creates special light effects responds to the architectural elements and the specific furniture of the BnF. Some outstanding pieces and documents express a turning point in the history of architecture and construction, and illustrate a very large-scale work.