Vortrag Françoise Fromonot - The Belly and the Architects

Vortrag Françoise Fromonot | The Belly and the Architects : the impossible renovation of les Halles in Paris

Date: Thursday, 06.05.2010, 17:00h, IKA Lecture Room R211a

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung Kulturelles Erbe II, Gogo Kempinger, statt.

The fate of Paris’ central area - formerly the site of its wholesale markets - has been a polemic subject for decades. In 2004 a competition was launched for the renovation of the buried megastructure that has replaced the mythical XIXth century pavilions since the 1970s. From a critical reading of this recent history and of the four competing proposals (SEURA, Nouvel, MVRDV, Koolhaas), this lecture will question the fate of this modernist urban heritage, and the architectural and political hindrances to the realisation of its potential.