Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Cité de la Musique

Preferred Title: 
Cité de la Musique
Alternate Title: 
City of Music
Image View: 
Close view of entry
Creator: 
Christian Urvoy de Portzamparc (French architect, born 1944)
Location: 
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note: 
221, Avenue Jean Jaurès
Date: 
1989-1995 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Postmodern
Work Type 1: 
mixed-use development
Work Type 2: 
museum
Work Type 3: 
concert hall
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
concrete; steel
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
architectural exteriors; music; Performing arts; ramp
Description: 
A group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter, 19th arrondissement, Paris, France. It consists of an amphitheater; a concert hall that can accommodate an audience of 800-1,000; a museum of music, containing an important collection of classical music instruments dating mainly from the fifteenth- to twentieth-century; and exhibition halls, workshops and archives. Part of François Mitterrand's Grands Projets along with the Parc de la Villette, the Cité de la Musique reinvented La Villette - the former slaughterhouse district. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection: 
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier: 
1A1-PCD-CM-A4
Rights: 
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