Living With... Nature

The French Pavilion is a metaphor for the architecture of open shelters. It is neither an example of architecture to be imitated nor a landscape to be replicated, but rather a symbol of a desirable renewal of both architecture and landscape. It offers an abstraction of the interpenetration between the shelter housing the exhibition halls and the openness to nature and the sea, experienced through strolling in the gardens and along the canal. This interpenetration calls for a new way of conceiving the landscape.

This form of landscape has profound consequences for how we think about architecture and urban planning in the uncertain context of climate change.

Held on Friday, November 21 at 5:00 PM at Palazzo Zorzi in Venice, the session will be moderated by Madeleine Houbart, Secretary General of AFEX, with Eric Daniel-Lacombe as Associate Curator of the French Pavilion.

With the participation of :

Stig L. Andersson – Landscape architect, founder of SLA and professor, Denmark
Nicolas Bauduceau – Director of Public Funds and Risk Prevention, CCR, France
Bernard Desmoulin – Architect, member of the Academy of Architecture, France
Cécile Gaudard – Architect, sustainable design specialist, France
Jeanny Lorgeoux - Mayor of Romorantin, France
Trung Mai – Architect, researcher in ecological urban planning, Vietnam
Éric Piolle – Mayor of Grenoble, France
Jana Revedin – Architect, theorist, holder of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Architecture, Italy
Bas Smets - Landscape architect, curator of the Pavilion of Belgium, Belgium

With the support of Caisse Centrale de Réassurance (CCR) and Groupe 3F.