01-05-2023

Territoires et paysages exhibition: the works of Atelier Pierre Thibault in Paris

Atelier Pierre Thibault,

Paris,

Exhibitions,

The exhibition currently on at La Galerie d'Architecture in Paris offers its public, until May 27, a fascinating immersive journey through various residential, institutional and cultural projects, created by Atelier Pierre Thibault, that live in perfect symbiosis with the territories and landscapes for which they were designed, as demonstrated by the splendid photographic images that accompany the exhibition.



Territoires et paysages exhibition: the works of Atelier Pierre Thibault in Paris

Giving back to the public the poetic universe of the places where the Canadian studio's projects were carried out was perhaps the most important challenge faced by La Galerie d'Architecture in Paris for the Territoires et paysages de l'Atelier Pierre Thibault (Territories and Landscapes by Atelier Pierre Thibault) exhibition.
The works exhibited until May 27 in Paris were selected from among the projects carried out over the course of more than thirty years of the studio's activity, originally founded in 1988. Residences, institutional buildings and installations which all thrive in a deep and perfect symbiosis with the natural and cultural contexts for which they were designed. The sensitive and respectful approach to the relationship with the territory of Quebec and its landscapes, the natural cycle of the seasons and the vernacular architecture of those places is, in fact, a distinctive element of all projects carried out by Atelier Pierre Thibault. “Nature is, for me, a source of renewed inspiration and a great teacher,” Pierre Thibault explains.

In order to narrate the different contexts and projects, the exhibition was staged as an archipelago composed of different island-territories. Visitors can make their way between the various tables to travel to the different territories of Quebec: from the placid waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes, to the intense sounds of the Val-Jalbert waterfalls, from the silence of the Abbaye Val Notre-Dame, to the song of birds in the Fondation Grantham gardens. Models, sketches, large-size images, objects and books are distributed in the exhibition space. The tools preferred by Atelier Pierre Thibault to illustrate how each architecture represents a different opportunity to create a story between the landscape and the people who inhabit it. At the same time, these tools offer the opportunity to explore the different architectural and landscape approaches, as well as the different relationships that arise between an architectural project and its natural and cultural context.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Exhibition: Territoires et paysages de l'Atelier Pierre Thibault / Territories and Landscapes by Atelier Pierre Thibault
https://www.pthibault.com/
Presented from April 15 to May 27, 2023
Location: Galerie d'architecture - 11 rue des Blancs Manteaux, 75004 Paris, France
Open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. FREE ENTRANCE

Conference at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal on May 9, 2023 at 7 PM

Photo credits: Atelier Pierre Thibault , Alain Laforest, Maxime Brouillet, Pierre-Ulric Gagné.

Captions and credits

01 - 04
Résidence Le Grand Plateau (2014),
Photo credit: Alain Laforest (01), Maxime Brouillet (02-04)

05
The architecture of Atelier Pierre Thibault in symbiosis with large spaces.
Photo credit: Atelier Pierre Thibault

06
Residence Mont Orford (2020), Eastern Townships
Photo credit: Maxime Brouillet

07-08
Résidence Les Abouts (2005), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du Québec
Photo credit: Maxime Brouillet

09-10
Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment (2019), Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Centre du Québec
Photo credit: Maxime Brouillet

11-12
Belvedere of the Val-Jalbert hydroelectric plant (2015)
Photo credit: Alain Laforest

13-14
Abbaye Val Notre-Dame (2009), Lanaudière
Photo credit: Alain Laforest

16-17
Residence La Grande Percée (2017), New Brunswick
Photo credit: Maxime Brouillet

18-20
The exhibition Territories and Landscapes by Atelier Pierre Thibault
Photo credit: Pierre-Ulric Gagné

21
Saint-Laurent Pavilion (2022), Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix
Photo credit: Maxime Brouillet


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