Guided tour of the exhibition «Homage to Christian Gimonet»

Name: Guided tour of the exhibition «Homage to Christian Gimonet»
Start: 2023-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Maison de l'Architecture Centre-Val de Loire

The Maison de l'Architecture Centre-Val de Loire invites you to discover the exhibition "Hommage à Christian Gimonet" through a guided tour led by Elke Mittmann, architectural historian…

Sunday 17 September 2023, 14:30Passed

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The Maison de l'Architecture Centre-Val de Loire invites you to discover the exhibition «Hommage à Christian Gimonet» through a guided tour led by Elke Mittmann, architectural historian and Director of the Maison de l'Architecture Centre-Val de Loire.
This exhibition presents a tribute to the work of the Berruyer architect Christian Gimonet, who died on January 11, 2023 at the age of 87. It is based on a first monographic exhibition that the Maison de l'Architecture Centre-Val de Loire, in partnership with Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges, dedicated to the work of the architect Christian Gimonet in 2012.
The exhibition shows the great panorama of his work that spans more than forty years of architectural productivity, both theoretical and practical which is also distinguished by a great conceptual and typological diversity.
The guided tour will accompany you to discover this exhibition, which shows through drawings, plans, photos and models, the main principles of the work of the architect Christian Gimonet and his projects and achievements until today.

About the location

Maison de l'Architecture Centre-Val de Loire

44 quai Saint-Laurent 45000 Orléans

Loiret
Centre-Val de Loire

The House of Architecture, association of law 1901, is the resource place of the Centre-Val de Loire region to address in all its facets the architectural creation on the entire regional territory. The House of Architecture is thus the natural place to which everyone turns to question, discover, share and understand the architecture of the 20th and 21st century, and all the stakes of construction, She is primarily concerned with raising awareness of the architectural culture in the region. It is defined as an interface between the different types of skills of its «complementary partners». It generates interactions with these different institutions and it aims to pool some of its activities in the field of research, exhibitions and training.
It works in close collaboration with other actors in architecture and construction, such as the C.A.U.E, urban planning agencies, architecture schools as well as any other institution working in the awareness of the contemporary built heritage of th