Visit "Archi"

Name: Visit "Archi"
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Palais de Tokyo

Explore the architecture of the Palais de Tokyo with a cultural mediator and uncover some of the secrets of its history.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Visit by reservation. The number of participants is limited to 25 people.

Registration

reservation@palaisdetokyo.com

Florent Michel - 11h45

Explore the architecture of the Palais de Tokyo with a cultural mediator, and uncover some of the secrets of its history.
A visit to the architecture of the Palais de Tokyo connects the interior and exterior of the building, its present and its history, art and life, the institution and the street. A dive into the architectural world of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, winners of the very prestigious Pritzker Prize 2021!
A unique opportunity to learn more about the bas-reliefs of the rear facade of the Palais de Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art that were the subject of a restoration campaign in 2021 or to contemplate the Jardin aux Habitants…

About the location

Palais de Tokyo

13 avenue du Président-Wilson, 75116 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Building on these years of success, the Palais de Tokyo became, in 2012, one of the largest sites dedicated to contemporary creation in Europe, its surface area growing from 8,000 m² to 22,000 m². It now extends to the Seine, forming a link on the hillside between the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées. Its success, its spirit of adventure and its new spaces put at the service of artists, their gestures and their gazes increase our capacity to perceive, imagine and open new paths. Today, the extension of its territory and its project gives the Palais de Tokyo the opportunity to rethink the role of the cultural institution in the face of the permanent acceleration of our lives. It becomes the place of encounter between ourselves and the art of our time. A place born, inhabited and grown from its contradictions. Enchanted and violent, poetic and transgressive, sensual and meditative, vast and intimate, public and secret, where one knows how to be enthusiastic without being pontiff, rela