Through the exhibition" (a) city - (a) real state of the (un) known ", Pavillon de l'Arsenal pursues its exploration of the contemporary metropolises. Between imagination and reality, the exhibition takes the shape of an exceptional model where assembles more than 100 architectures, utopias and past, present or future realizations of Brussels.
The set offers a vision
invented but shared by the city in " a big narrative, that of a capital
which exists as much as it is dreamed and who could be one of these invisible
cities told by the Italian writer Italo Calvino " according to Cedric
Libert, curator of the exhibition.
" City - (A) Real State of the Known places the city as the subject of reflection and discussion; the city approached under the angle of the multiple realities which constitute it, the received city as inheritance as much as project to become there, the city envisaged by the singular superimposingthe interweaving and the sedimentation of strata.
The proposal gathers(combines) 100 projects of architecture. In the idea of a narrative between imagination and reality, it is about a collection of buildings(ships) and symbolic urban situations of Brussels, told in a work and assembled under the shape of a big model of 4m x 4m. This one is built from situations which existed, exist or could exist. Under the shape of an imaginary territory, it gatherspast, present and forward-looking projects: le Palais de justice de Bruxelles, le Cinquantenaire, la Maison du Peuple de Victor Horta, le Pavillon du Bonheur Temporaire de V+, le Théâtre National, le projet de Jonction Nord‑Midi de Luc Deleu ou encore le siège Glaverbel à la Chaussée de la Hulpe. In brief, the short history of the architecture envisaged by different elements - each of them establishes a 'prototype' for the city. Thus, it is to open the drawers of the history, to go out of it of projects and to observe them as unique specimen, although that stemming from a sort more widely spread in the city.
By the reconfiguration besides all these projects on the model, it is a question on one hand, to be attentive to the space between the constructed architectures - the space between the ordered volumes - because it reveals the existence of unpublished reports between elements; and on the other hand, to explore the idea that each builds the personal experience of the city - a sensitive, clean and unique cartography, even an intimate mythology.Cédric Libert, commissaire de l'exposition.
AROUNF THE EXPOSITION
To allow each to discover and to exchange around this theme between constructed city and collective unconscious, Pavillon de l'Arsenal organize on Monday, November 4th at 7 pm, in partnership with the Center Wallonia-Brussels in Paris and Wallonia Brussels Architecture, a big debate with bastin Olivier, master architect of the Brussels Region, Cedric Libert, critic, architect and teacher and Sébastien Marot, teacher and philosopher. But also, a discussion, on Saturday, November 9th at 4 pm and livened up(led) by Rafaël Magrou and Brent Patterson, to discover the wealth of the contemporary Brussels architecture with architects and authors of about ten works which are dedicated to him.
DEBATE
(Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known
Debate in partnership with Wallonie Bruxelles Architectures et le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, with
Olivier Bastin, architect, Maître-Architecte de la région bruxelloise,
Cédric Libert, architect, teacher and commissioners of exposition
Sébastien Marot, philosoph, teacher
DISCUSSION
(Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known
Discussion organiwed in partnership with Wallonie Bruxelles Architecture and Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris
Discussion around recent publications in Wallonie-Bruxelles : L’Equerre, Dithyrambes, Clara, XX Models, (Un)City, Inventaires #1, Pédagogie de l’espace.
" City - (A) Real State of the Known places the city as the subject of reflection and discussion; the city approached under the angle of the multiple realities which constitute it, the received city as inheritance as much as project to become there, the city envisaged by the singular superimposingthe interweaving and the sedimentation of strata.
The proposal gathers(combines) 100 projects of architecture. In the idea of a narrative between imagination and reality, it is about a collection of buildings(ships) and symbolic urban situations of Brussels, told in a work and assembled under the shape of a big model of 4m x 4m. This one is built from situations which existed, exist or could exist. Under the shape of an imaginary territory, it gatherspast, present and forward-looking projects: le Palais de justice de Bruxelles, le Cinquantenaire, la Maison du Peuple de Victor Horta, le Pavillon du Bonheur Temporaire de V+, le Théâtre National, le projet de Jonction Nord‑Midi de Luc Deleu ou encore le siège Glaverbel à la Chaussée de la Hulpe. In brief, the short history of the architecture envisaged by different elements - each of them establishes a 'prototype' for the city. Thus, it is to open the drawers of the history, to go out of it of projects and to observe them as unique specimen, although that stemming from a sort more widely spread in the city.
By the reconfiguration besides all these projects on the model, it is a question on one hand, to be attentive to the space between the constructed architectures - the space between the ordered volumes - because it reveals the existence of unpublished reports between elements; and on the other hand, to explore the idea that each builds the personal experience of the city - a sensitive, clean and unique cartography, even an intimate mythology.Cédric Libert, commissaire de l'exposition.
AROUNF THE EXPOSITION
To allow each to discover and to exchange around this theme between constructed city and collective unconscious, Pavillon de l'Arsenal organize on Monday, November 4th at 7 pm, in partnership with the Center Wallonia-Brussels in Paris and Wallonia Brussels Architecture, a big debate with bastin Olivier, master architect of the Brussels Region, Cedric Libert, critic, architect and teacher and Sébastien Marot, teacher and philosopher. But also, a discussion, on Saturday, November 9th at 4 pm and livened up(led) by Rafaël Magrou and Brent Patterson, to discover the wealth of the contemporary Brussels architecture with architects and authors of about ten works which are dedicated to him.
DEBATE
(Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known
Debate in partnership with Wallonie Bruxelles Architectures et le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, with
Olivier Bastin, architect, Maître-Architecte de la région bruxelloise,
Cédric Libert, architect, teacher and commissioners of exposition
Sébastien Marot, philosoph, teacher
DISCUSSION
(Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known
Discussion organiwed in partnership with Wallonie Bruxelles Architecture and Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris
Discussion around recent publications in Wallonie-Bruxelles : L’Equerre, Dithyrambes, Clara, XX Models, (Un)City, Inventaires #1, Pédagogie de l’espace.
