Alain Pierre Seban is a French cultural institution head and senior official. He was the president of the Pompidou Centre in Paris until February 2015. As such, he also heads three organisations linked to the Pompidou Centre: the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Bibliothèque publique d’information and the IRCAM.
Seban in 2014
From right to left: Seban, Mariano Rajoy, Fleur Pellerin and Francisco de la Torre at the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Málaga, Spain in March 2015
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
Centre Pompidou
Building technology
The Stravinsky Fountain located outside the Centre Pompidou
Pablo Picasso's works in the Centre