The French Pavilion curator in Venice, Christophe Hutin, has been working on the make-up of cities and their exclusion logic for more than 20 years. Inspiration comes from many places for him, having lived in a township in Soweto, South Africa, for example. The project the architect is presenting in Venice shows this opening to the world.

From Soweto to Bordeaux via Detroit and Hanoi, Communities at work aims to understand how we will live together in the future. The place of residents in how their environment changes is essential for Christophe Hutin, who uses this project to describe the meeting between an architect and residents’ life experience. Immerse yourself in a visit of the French Pavilion in Venice in 10 snapshots.

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In the background to the project presented by Christophe Hutin in Venice, the architect and town planner Philippe Madec has also added bricks to the structure. Read the portrait of the man who was president of the selection committee which chose the curator for the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Anya Sirota is an architect whose Akoaki architecture practice is based in Detroit, a metropolitan area she considers to be like a model to consider the city of the future. Today her project The Mothership (2014) is one of the symbols of Detroit.

How the pyramids were built still remains a great architectural mystery to this day. The Scan Pyramids virtual reality work offers a scientific and educational journey inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Guillaume Ramillien is a young architect who pays particular attention to social and environmental issues, who was a Albums des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes (AJAP) young architects’ awards winner in 2016.