MANY NAMES
 In « Mémoire d’un architecte », the architect Fernand Pouillon wrote about his social housing-project "Climat de France" in Algiers (1957):
“I have the certainty that this architecture is without disdain. Perhaps for the first time in modern times, we had installed men in a monument. And these men who were the poorest in poor Algeria understood it. They were the ones who named the big square “the two hundred columns” 1.
This is not the only name for the project though. In fact it has many names, each of them reflecting a specific aspect of its multifaceted nature.
Following the R+E excursion in Algeria, the exhibition explore those many names, with pictures from photographer Thomas Bellanger who accompanied the group.

January 13 till 24, 2025
Lobby, 2. floor

Photo: Thomas Bellanger