Editing Centre Pompidou (section)

===Design selection===
The Rogers and Piano design was chosen among 681 competition entries. World-renowned architects [[Oscar Niemeyer]], [[Jean Prouvé]], and [[Philip Johnson]] made up the jury.<ref>{{cite video |people=Richard Copans, Director |title=Le Centres Georges Pompidou |url=https://vimeo.com/197148859 |year=2007 |access-date=17 September 2019 |location=France |medium=Film}}</ref> It was the first time in France that international architects were allowed to participate. The selection was announced in 1971 at a press conference, where the contrast between the sharply-dressed Pompidou and "hairy young crew" of architects represented a "grand bargain between radical architecture and establishment politics."<ref name="Moore">{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Rowan |title=Pompidou Centre: a 70s French radical that's never gone out of fashion |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/08/pompidou-centre-40-years-old-review-richard-rogers-renzo-piano |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=8 January 2017 |access-date=18 September 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729170402/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/08/pompidou-centre-40-years-old-review-richard-rogers-renzo-piano |url-status=live}}</ref>