You have always had a soft spot for the organic architectures of 1970s sci-fi movies (from The Planet of the Apes To Star Wars)? The exhibition Space conquests of the Platform is made for you. Inspired by the book Where will we live tomorrow?, written by Michel Ragon in 1963, the tour looks back at the both serious and eccentric projects of three architects of the 1960s: Jean-Louis Chanéac, Pascal Häusermann and Claude Costy.
Three architects who questioned the dogma of functionalist architecture and wondered about the modalities of inhabiting the world of the future ?? that is to say ours. Their approach and their thoughts are exposed to us through models, photographs, sketches and rather funny video extracts.
Insurrectionary architecture
We thus discover the organic architecture designed by Häusermann and Costy in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (a few kilometers from Grenoble), the utopian expansion project of Aix-les-Bains on Lake Bourget by Jean-Louis Chanéac, but also projects with a strong political dimension such as the pirate bubble, organic growth intended to be grafted onto modern buildings, allowing both to increase the living area and to create a new rhythm on facades with desperately monotonous standardization ?? for Chanéac architecture had to be insurrectionary!
As a bonus, other contemporary projects are mentioned on satellite panels. We will remember the anti-seismic floating city of Paul Maymont, the improbable flying holiday home of Guy Rottier and of course the inevitable mega-structure of Archigram, which is reminiscent of that of a certain Georges Pompidou center which will see the light of day. in 1977.
Space conquests at the Plateforme, former painting museum, until December 31, 2021
In the 1960s, architects Jean-Louis Chanéac, Claude Costy and Pascal Häusermann imagined the architecture of the future.
The Place de Verdun Grenoble Platform
Until December 31, 2021, from Wed to Sat, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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