The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine follows in the footsteps of previous exhibitions dedicated to the work of great architectural figures who have marked their time, from Vauban to Claude Parent.
The exhibition pays special attention to the aesthetic, ethical and constructive values of his work, as well as the commitment with which his work faces the great challenges of our society, particularly the environmental ones, as the jury pointed out when awarding him the prize for 2018.
The exhibition, curated by Joseph Abram and Francis Rambert, director of the department of architectural creation, is not a retrospective but a monographic exhibition articulated around a dozen achievements and three upcoming projects, by the curator Joseph Abram and Francis Rambert, director of the architectural creation department.
Courthouse, Avesnes-sur-Helpe, North, Pierre-Louis Faloci architect, 2003-2008. Photography by Daniel Osso.
For Pierre-Louis Faloci, the choice to be an architect arises as a consequence of a “visual obstruction”: the construction of a building in front of the family home that at the age of 13 erased the “vision of his childhood” in the city of Nice. , the sea, the big rock, the hills, the bay, the foothills. This "optical shock" will accompany all his research on the idea of architecture and landscape. He will be particularly interested in the culture of the gaze in art history, photography and especially in some forms of cinema.
Through his teaching and projects, several convictions were born that are presented as part of the exhibition:
The exhibition pays special attention to the aesthetic, ethical and constructive values of his work, as well as the commitment with which his work faces the great challenges of our society, particularly the environmental ones, as the jury pointed out when awarding him the prize for 2018.
The exhibition, curated by Joseph Abram and Francis Rambert, director of the department of architectural creation, is not a retrospective but a monographic exhibition articulated around a dozen achievements and three upcoming projects, by the curator Joseph Abram and Francis Rambert, director of the architectural creation department.
Courthouse, Avesnes-sur-Helpe, North, Pierre-Louis Faloci architect, 2003-2008. Photography by Daniel Osso.
For Pierre-Louis Faloci, the choice to be an architect arises as a consequence of a “visual obstruction”: the construction of a building in front of the family home that at the age of 13 erased the “vision of his childhood” in the city of Nice. , the sea, the big rock, the hills, the bay, the foothills. This "optical shock" will accompany all his research on the idea of architecture and landscape. He will be particularly interested in the culture of the gaze in art history, photography and especially in some forms of cinema.
Through his teaching and projects, several convictions were born that are presented as part of the exhibition:
- The notion of «deaf history of the place»: to compose with all the forgotten traces, the pains, the tears, the wars, the silence, a form of «reverse archaeology».
- The notion of «threat aesthetics»: dealing with all current threats, floods, pollution, noise, and disaster; the importance of eco-construction and the architecture of urgency.
- The notion of «optical sedimentation»: realizing that in any intervention architecture and landscape have an impact on the near, medium and large area. In this area, the world of gaze culture is of enormous importance to Pierre-Louis Faloci.
- The notion of «threat aesthetics»: dealing with all current threats, floods, pollution, noise, and disaster; the importance of eco-construction and the architecture of urgency.
- The notion of «optical sedimentation»: realizing that in any intervention architecture and landscape have an impact on the near, medium and large area. In this area, the world of gaze culture is of enormous importance to Pierre-Louis Faloci.
Transformation of the Château de Wendel into a civic centre, Hayange, Hauts-de-Seine, architect Pierre-Louis Faloci, 2014-2016. Photography by Daniel Osso.
These concepts accompany the selection of the projects presented, as well as the explanation of the importance of figures such as Georges Méliès and his fascinating study, Le Nôtre and the genius of his perspective, Hubert Damisch for his work and his book «L'Origine de la perspective”, Gilles Deleuze on the question of the image of time and the moving image, filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Abbas Kiarostami, Yasujirò Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, for their unique way of approaching to the world of architecture, the framing, the space, the depth of field, the route, the "background of the landscape", and for its premonition about the current world.
Thus, even fully understanding the indisputable importance of eco-construction today, there is a fundamental material for Pierre-Louis Faloci: "the ecology of the gaze".
War museum 14-18, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, architect Pierre-Louis Faloci, 2014-2016. Photography by Daniel Osso.
The exhibition will present a selection of projects, a journey from the Mont-Beuvray Archaeological Center to the National School of Architecture in Toulouse, passing through projects such as the European Center for Deported Resistance Fighters in the Struthof camp, the Center for the history of the battle of Valmy, the Dunkirk Learning Center and the Archaeological Museum of Mariana.
