Futurs antérieurs (Previous Futures)
Pascal Haüsermann, Chanéac, Antti Lovag
Museum of Fine Arts Orléans--opening on 4 May from 7 p.m.

Curators: Marie-Ange Brayer, Eric Moinet
The FRAC Centre Collection

This exhibition will present the approaches of three architects who have been experimenting from the early 1960s onward, in France, with both an organic form of architecture and the industrialization of plastic shells. Together, they have developed, among other things, cells that can be interconnected. Self-construction for Antti Lovag, organic homes for Haüsermann, industrialized architecture and manmade landscape of "crater-towns" with Chanéac, all adopting a complex approach to a "biomorphic" space, which, today, turns out to be close to the most forward-looking forms of topological research.

Domestic Architectures
FRAC Centre - opening on 3 May starting from 7 p.m.
Curator : Céline Saraiva Design: Delphine Coindet

An exhibition of architects' furniture

This exhibition showing some 50 objects, will offer a chance to discover the production of indoor furniture designed by ArchiLab 1999 and 2000 architects. It will also help to show that the management of household space is also an area of investigation in the architect's profession and that it is part and parcel of a designer-architect tradition.

Architectures projetées
(Architectural projections)
Médiathèque d'Orléans, May-June 2000

Cinematographic imagination and artistic and architectural work share various issues and problems in common. Throughout the exhibition, the Orléans Multimedia Centre and the Cinema des Carmes will screen films in which architecture is the leading character (Moholy-Nagy's Marseille and Fritz Lang's Metropolis), films made by artists (Robert Smithson, Matta-Clark) and architects (animated films by Yona Friedman, etc.), videos by architects, somewhere between architectural and cinematographic experimentation, the screening of documentary films about present-day architects and major architectural figures (houses by Rem Koolhaas, Claude Parent and Paul Virilio's Banlay church at Nevers by J. Donada, etc.). Selection by Marco Brizzi, the ArchiLab curators and the Orléans Multimedia Centre.

ArchiLive
Astrolabe, 4, 5 May 2000

Program established by Christophe Taupin in collaboration with Astrolabe team.ArchiLive will be held over two evenings at the Astrolabe, an amplified musical room, on 4 and 5 May 2000, offering a coherent presentation of some of the most innovative trends in electronic music.