Pavillon de l'Arsenal invites fifteen European agencies which re-question our metropolises fabrication today. By their singular strategies, these architects change the city to change the life.
Foreword by Anne Hidalgo, Première Adjointe at Maire de Paris, in charge of architecture and urban planning, Présidente of Pavillon de l'Arsenal
The contemporary metropolis apprehends in a dynamic, alive and attentive way, it feeds daily on the dialogue and on the shared experiences. I thus wished, for first time in Paris, to hand over has a new way " to make the city " which grows rich every day in a different way. With this exhibition(exposure) Re.architecture, Re.cycler, Ré.utiliser, Ré.investir, Re.construire, here is architects' completely promising European generation which makes a commitment in transverse and participative urban and architectural practices. Gathered(combined) in collectives or associations, often multidisciplinary these agencies experiment the city to reinvent the everyday life of our fellow countrymen. The presentation of their lively, direct and sustainable projects invites us to discover and to share a field of possible enthusiasts for the enrichment of our metropolitan landscape. So, whether it is through the big Parisian urban experiences which we live or on the occasion of this discovery of the diversity enriched by new steps, we shall be able better, still, to meet the expectations of all and each.
The contemporary metropolis apprehends in a dynamic, alive and attentive way, it feeds daily on the dialogue and on the shared experiences. I thus wished, for first time in Paris, to hand over has a new way " to make the city " which grows rich every day in a different way. With this exhibition(exposure) Re.architecture, Re.cycler, Ré.utiliser, Ré.investir, Re.construire, here is architects' completely promising European generation which makes a commitment in transverse and participative urban and architectural practices. Gathered(combined) in collectives or associations, often multidisciplinary these agencies experiment the city to reinvent the everyday life of our fellow countrymen. The presentation of their lively, direct and sustainable projects invites us to discover and to share a field of possible enthusiasts for the enrichment of our metropolitan landscape. So, whether it is through the big Parisian urban experiences which we live or on the occasion of this discovery of the diversity enriched by new steps, we shall be able better, still, to meet the expectations of all and each.
Presentation of the exhibition
In Amsterdam, Berlin, Bruxelles, Londres, Madrid, Paris o Rotterdam, these teams, exceptional, take critical positions. Their manifestoes explore the role of the architecture in the social evolution. They advocate the intervention as the action, produce and even sometimes autoconstruct their projects. Their practices are so many promises which make possible of the forgotten utopias.
In Amsterdam, Berlin, Bruxelles, Londres, Madrid, Paris o Rotterdam, these teams, exceptional, take critical positions. Their manifestoes explore the role of the architecture in the social evolution. They advocate the intervention as the action, produce and even sometimes autoconstruct their projects. Their practices are so many promises which make possible of the forgotten utopias.
All invent magnificent standards and learn the contemporary complexities, in a breath capable of realizing the potential pleasures which exist in the intersection between the real-life experience and the built. Teachers and pragmatic, they work with those who are already there and for those who will live tomorrow.
Thirty proposals exposed, presented in the course of the various phases of their conception, describe both the conditions of the command and the moments of investigation, the participative actions or the conditions of the studies and the realization. Every architecture explains itself through videos, drawings, conversations, plans and photos to translate these experimental and innovative researches. Short-lived or long-lasting, the during of these projects seems to show that in our time not to create additional constraints which would shrink the future choices.
Micro-interventions or urban strategies, these projects transform the subjects and idle territories into opportunity. They make optimistic the disillusioned places. Hollow tooth, fallow lands, abandoned, abandoned territories, or large sets, they reinvest the space when one of the challenges of the European city is more certainly to reconstruct that to extend. And always, they make a commitment to save what is not renewable and to recycle all which can be it.
With regard to this production which offers unexpected perspectives and commits new reflections, six witnesses share through their experience this urban alter-dynamics: Jean Blaise, Michel Cantal-Dupart, Didier Fusillier, Guillaume Hébert, Maud Le Floc' a hour and Thierry Paquot. Between fairground, long-lasting city, citizen, ecological all reveal the new times of the urban project, the expectations of the command and its new tools to make otherwise.
So, the exhibition Re.architecture, Re.cycler, Ré.utiliser, Ré.investir, Re.construire aims to be a collective platform of exploration, knowledge of actions and researches around the transformations and the cultural, social practices and the emergent urban politics. It wishes to invite the general public and the professionals to discover new strategies to reinvent together the city.
Thirty proposals exposed, presented in the course of the various phases of their conception, describe both the conditions of the command and the moments of investigation, the participative actions or the conditions of the studies and the realization. Every architecture explains itself through videos, drawings, conversations, plans and photos to translate these experimental and innovative researches. Short-lived or long-lasting, the during of these projects seems to show that in our time not to create additional constraints which would shrink the future choices.
Micro-interventions or urban strategies, these projects transform the subjects and idle territories into opportunity. They make optimistic the disillusioned places. Hollow tooth, fallow lands, abandoned, abandoned territories, or large sets, they reinvest the space when one of the challenges of the European city is more certainly to reconstruct that to extend. And always, they make a commitment to save what is not renewable and to recycle all which can be it.
With regard to this production which offers unexpected perspectives and commits new reflections, six witnesses share through their experience this urban alter-dynamics: Jean Blaise, Michel Cantal-Dupart, Didier Fusillier, Guillaume Hébert, Maud Le Floc' a hour and Thierry Paquot. Between fairground, long-lasting city, citizen, ecological all reveal the new times of the urban project, the expectations of the command and its new tools to make otherwise.
So, the exhibition Re.architecture, Re.cycler, Ré.utiliser, Ré.investir, Re.construire aims to be a collective platform of exploration, knowledge of actions and researches around the transformations and the cultural, social practices and the emergent urban politics. It wishes to invite the general public and the professionals to discover new strategies to reinvent together the city.
