The art historian, art critic and architectural critic Marie-Ange Brayer (born in Belgium in 1964) has been director of the Regional Contemporary Art Collection [FRAC Centre] of France's Centre Region in OrlÈans since 1996. The FRAC's collection is devoted to architecture in its experimental dimension. As co-founder with Frédéric Migayrou of the Archilab conferences in Orléans, she herself curated these events with Béatrice Simonot in 2001 and 2002. In this latter year the two curators were also in charge of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Having presented the FRAC Centre collections as part of Archilab 2003, Marie-Ange Brayer will henceforth by responsible for Archilab's artistic management.