WAVE OF CONTRAST

摘要

Altering the louvre architecturally is tantamount to operating on the collective French psyche. The former palace embodies much of the French history that every schoolchild learns by rote: Changing it means tampering with inculcated cultural memory. The monumental glass pyramid that I.M. Pei famously built in 1989 in the Cour d'Honneur-among the first changes that former President Francois Mitterrand initiated for the "Grand Louvre" museum expansion project-polarized the French, eliciting cris de coeur on both sides of the controversy. Some still don't accept it.