The exhibition both presents and explains the diversity of the exhibition design work by architects: Be it Toyo Ito who takes over the Palladian Basilica in Vicenza (Italy, Un Studio who uses the exhibition “Summer of Love” to unify psychedelic art with the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle (Germany), NOX who impresses a “Vision Machine” onto the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (France), or the young architecture practice AV62 Arquitectos who designs a luminous labyrinth within the majestic setting of the City History Museum of Barcelona (Spain).

Whether it is discrete or spectacular, educational, experimental or manifest, emotional or playful, each design is not only intimately linked with the architectural signature of its author but also reflects the diversity of styles, trends, and evolutionary concepts of an era. For over 15 years, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal has committed the design of its exhibitions to French and international architects. Using architects to design exhibitions means accepting that an architectural character will involve itself with the building, establish and redesign space in order to serve a purpose and to invoke emotions.

The architectural practice Dominique Perrault Architecture produced this bilingual (French/English) exhibition design to be itinerant from the end of 2006.

EXHIBITIONS DESIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS ... 1996-2006
Abalos & Herreros / Actar Arquitectura / Shinobu Akahori / Atelier Christian De Portzamparc / Atelier Sompairac Architecte / Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Av62arquitectos / Avignon-Clouet Architectes / B-Architecten / Bkk-3 / Manuel Blanco / Blockarchitecture / Raoul Bunschoten Bureau Des Mésarchitectures / Burger Koch Architektur / Calderon-Folch Arquitectes / Canal, Patrick Rubin Architecte / Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene / Coop Himmelb(l)au / Vincen Cornu Architecte / Diller + Scofidio / Peter Eisenman / Saeta Estudi / Jacques Ferrier Architecte / Freestate / Massimiliano Fuksas, Doriana O. Mandrelli / Philippe Gazeau Architecte / Gehry Partners / Thierry Germe Architecte / Alain Guiheux et Dominique Rouillard / Zaha Hadid Architects / Herzog & De Meuron / Nicolas Hugon / Stéphane Maupin / Iroje Architects & Planners / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects / Jakob + Macfarlane / Rem Koolhaas Oma Amo / Eric Lapierre Architecte / Daniel Libeskind / Lin, Finn Geipel Et Giulia Andi / Migliore + Servetto Architetti Associati / Morphosis / Hans-Walter Müller Architecte / Mvrdv / Newbetter / Nio Architecten / Nord / Jean Nouvel / Nox / Oth, Ontwerpgroep Trude Hooykaas / François Payet Architecte / Renzo Piano Building Workshop / Plot et Bruce Mau Design / Maurizio Di Puolo / Massimo Quendolo / Philippe Rahm Architectes / Red Research + Design / Umberto Riva / R&Sie(N) & Benoît Durandin / Sauerbruch Hutton Architects / Scandurra Studio / Alvaro Siza Et Eduardo Souto De Moura / Un Studio / Suzanne Weigelt & Michael Lingenhöle / Jean-Michel Wilmotte

EXHIBITIONS CREATED AT THE PAVILLON DE L'ARSENAL DESIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS... 1989-2006
Actar Arquitectura / Agence Brunet-Saunier / Agence Confino / Agence Du Besset-Lyon / Agence Dusapin-Leclercq / Architecture Studio / AWP, architectes / Shigeru Ban avec Jean De Gastines / Patrick Berger / Marc Béri / Frédéric Borel / Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes Olivier Chaslin / Alexandre Chemetoff et Bertrand Lemoine / Catherine Clarisse / Jean-Louis Cohen et André Lortie / François Confino et Jacques Le Disez / Mitchell De Jarnett / Etienne Dufay / Pierre-Louis Faloci / Kristin Feireiss / Jacques Ferrier / Bruno Fortier / Edith Girard / Xavier Gonzalez / Groupe E2 / Franck Hammoutène / Nicolas Hugon et Stéphane Maupin / Toyo Ito & Associates, Extra Muros et Manuel Tardits / Jakob + Macfarlane / Lan Architecture / Jean Léonard et Martine Weissmann / Karin Leopold et François Fauconnet / Yves Lion / André Lortie / Marc Mimram / Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Périphériques / Dominique Perrault Architecture / Nathalie Rallet / Rh + Architecture / Jean-Paul Robert / Pierre Schall / Odile Seyler / Francis Soler / Vaudou-Allegret / Michel Velly et Jean-Pierre Pranlas-Descours