7th edition of the Festival of Lively Architectures in Montpellier

On the theme of the surprise, hundred of international teams answered and 10 of them + the invited university are going to present to you works all more surprising than the others for this 7th edition of the Festival of the Lively Architectures in Montpellier, France.

From 13 till 17 June 2012, the courtyards are going to open their doors to the public to show the work of architects’ young generation and allow to discover symbolic places of the city of Montpellier. The Lively Architectures are going to be real surprises transforming patrimonial architecture, in a space revisited thanks to short-lived architecture. The unexpected will take place so that each feels a soft surprise. And it will be through the path in the city that each will go from surprise to surprise.

The participating teams:

- Cyril Rheims, Mathieu Collos, Pérols – Montpellier, France, ‘INVITATION A LA LÉVITATION’

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- Adam Scales, Pierre Berthelomeau, Paul Van Den Berg – Rotterdam, Netherlands, ‘REFRAME’

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- MN-Lab – Gwenole Mary, Arnaud Negre, Nîmes, France, ‘SMOOTH ROCK’

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- Tri-Oh! ateliers – Javier Peña Ibáñez, Cristina Sánchez Algarra, Madrid – Paris, Spain – France, ‘CITE SURPRISE, CITE SURPRENANTE’

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- UrbanB’s – Farzaneh Bahrami, Marco Asciutti, Matteo Muggianu, Enrique Enriquez, Lausanne – Milan – Montréal, Switzerland – Italy – Canada, ‘TOPOGRAPHIE DE LA SUPRISE’

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- Shalumo – Samuel Berthomeau, Lucie Mothes, Bordeaux, France, ‘BYE BYE BALLOON’

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- Julie Biron, Berlin, Germany, ‘NE DÉRANGE PAS MES CERCLES’

- Dondecabentres – Erik Herrera Iturat, Cristina Bestraten del Pino, Aina Bigorra Gonzalez, Barcelone, Spain, ‘TOURNE AROUND’

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- Le Bureau des Affaires Scéniques – Suzanne Thoma, Domnine Jobelot, Paris, France, ‘LE RENVERSEMENT DU CIEL’

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- Aa64 – Phillip Anzalone, Stéphanie Bayard, Will Laufs, New-York, United-States, ‘FORET URBAINE’

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- Ecole d’architecture de l’Université Laval, Le collectif de la fourchette, Emilie Benoit Beaulé, Alexandre Boulianne, Jean-François Laroche, Eric Lizotte, accompagnés de Marianne Charbonneau, Etienne Bernier, Jean-Philippe Saucier – Québec, Canada, ‘PREMIÈRE NEIGE’

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