Round
Tables
Wednesday 9 May, Thursday 10 May,
10:am - 12:30am ; 2:30pm - 6:pm
Friday 11 May 2001: 10h
- 13h
Conference Centre, 9 place du 6 juin 1944, Orleans
Open to the public
ArchiLab will bring the 90 participating teams together for two days of
round table discussions.
The first day, 9 May, will be devoted to an individual presentation of the approach and method of each architect, while day two, 10 May, will offer several round table groups, bringing the exhibitor architects together to discuss such subjects as "individualizing the collective space", "flexibility dictated by use", "creating the landscape", "new lifestyles, today and tomorrow", "subversion" and "form, creative process".
On Friday 11 May, in the morning, the various discussions will be summarized, in the presence of guests not directly involved in the conference.
Connected events
•"12
schools of architecture in Europe", FRAC Centre
Opening: 9 May 2001 from 7:00pm
Twelve schools of architecture in Europe will each present housing projects,
designed by students. More than 20 experimental projects, some of them
prototypes, will be on view at the FRAC Centre, attesting to the creative
thrust of architectural research in European schools of architecture (Paris,
Rennes, London, Brussels, Zagreb, Berlin, Dessau, Vienna, Graz, Lisbon
and Barcelona).
Curated by Marie-Ange Brayer, Béatrice Simonot
•"Inside
House, a familiar terrain"
Museum of Fine Arts, Orleans
Opening: 10 May 2001 from 8:00pm
This exhibition will bring together the work of a dozen young artists
around the theme of domesticity: sculptures and design objects will play
on the ambiguity between household object and artwork, questioning the
way the house and home "functions".
Curated by Céline Saraiva
•Jean
Renaudie, Orleans Multimedia Library
Opening: 10 May 2001 from 7:30pm
The FRAC Centre will show a collection of drawings and archives of the
architect Jean Renaudie, designer of housing projects in Ivry and Givors,
who radically rethought the concept of public housing in the 1970s. This
exhibition, which will also put on view, among other things, the Vaudreuil
project which was never built, will offer an opportunity to question the
recurrence of certain issues from that period.
Curated by Marie-Ange Brayer
•Cinema des Carmes
Screening of films and documentaries about architecture throughout the
ArchiLab conference.
•Lectures at IAV (Institut d'Arts Visuels)
Organized by IAV.
•Scenography
The
ArchiLab scenography, designed by Matali Crasset, proposes a flexible
system enabling each architect to construct his/her own space. Projects
will be separated by a suspended inflatable structure, a wall made of
air and coloured light, indicating the theme each project is contributing
to. Coloured marking on the floor rounds off this arrangement. A kit will
be available to all participants, consisting of an inflatable structure,
furnishings, a TV table, picture rails, and stands for maquettes. The
way the individual units are organized, brought together, as they are,
by theme, makes it possible to make a combined reading of them, as well
as compare the projects on view.
Educational programmes
ArchiLab also acts as a real source of information on research architecture, aimed, on the one hand, at a professional public (architects, students, etc) and, on the other, at a more general public, made up of people who are aware of architectural issues in general. Special attention will thus be paid to the inclusion of educational programmes tailored to these different audiences.
The FRAC Centre educational department, in coordination with an
ArchiLab team, will present a training programme for school students and
the public, together with mediators (architecture students, teachers).
Furthermore, ArchiLab subscribes to the educational project of the Orleans
Visual Arts Institute, headed by Gérard Baudoin. Students from
this school will run a course dealing with exhibition assembly and public
reception during the conference.
Public facilities
A cafeteria and a bookshop will be available to the public during the
exhibition opening hours. A team of guides made up of architecture students
will help visitors to access information.
Communications
ArchiLab : un catalogue
A publication of some 350 pages, in French and English, will accompany
this exhibition. It will include contributions from a dozen international
critics. In it each project will be allocated several pages, which will
contain a general text, and a presentation of the project on view in the
form of texts and photographs.
A bilingual journal-cum-programme
This journal, which will be available to the public, will give all the
information about the various conference events.
An exhibition guide (free)
The Beaux Arts Magazine supplement
An edition of 80,000 copies
Incorporated in the May 2001 issue, this supplement will offer an additional
overview of these new ways of dwelling.