Press preview: 5pm General preview: 7.30pm

PRESS RELEASE
Flow. When movement shapes our towns
EXHIBITION FROM 4 APRIL 2012 – 26 AUGUST 2012
Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine
TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS GALLERIES
TUESDAY 3 APRIL 2012
Press preview: 5pm
General preview: 7.30pm
The exhibition offers the visitor the opportunity to follow the development of urban design through the ages
and explore the urban spaces and buildings which are a
consequence of man’s movement across the land. The
exhibition incorporates both real-world movement, dating back thousands of years, together with today’s virtual movement. Streets and squares, roads, motorways
or railways, ports, caravanserail, stations and terminals,
compact cities and sprawling towns – these are just
some of the places and concepts, born out of our desire
for movement, which punctuate the history of our land.
City of the Future, Harvey Willey Corbett, 1913
The Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine is dedicating 1,500 m² of space to its next large exhibition
on urban mobility, adopting a chronological, thematic and playful approach to the subject. Open to the
public.
Our lives are made up of moments of activity and inertia, comings and goings, arrivals and departures. Space
within towns and between towns is organized to support this constant movement. From the earliest days almost, towns were structured to allow for both the gathering of men, and their accumulated wealth, and, at the
same time, to facilitate movement and encourage meetings and interaction.
The exhibition takes the visitor on a playful and sensory journey, presented as a theatre set. Reconstructed
roads, computer generated images, films, soundtracks
composed by Louis Dandrel and Bernard Lubat, transport the visitor through time and space, leading him to
reflect on his environment and future. While the 20th
century was characterised by a sort of “transport war”
strongly influenced by the myth that progress equalled
speed, the start of this century represents a time to question our travel and movement patterns. The exhibition
makes numerous novel suggestions about how man can
organize his life of motion.
In this exhibition, Jean-Marie Duthilleul illustrates how
town development should achieve a subtle balance – a
balance that needs to be constantly adjusted – between
movement and stillness, between places you stay in
and places you pass through. When you design a town,
you are designing a system to accommodate groups of
people and allow for interaction. Thus the town is the
result of a constant dialectic between mobility and immobility.
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Overall plan of exhibition
Exhibition Extras
For the younger audience
1, 2, 3 … Circulez !
From 4 April - 26 August 2012
Games area for children (from 5 years upwards)
Inside the exhibition, Circuler. Quand nos mouvements
façonnent les villes, there is a games area, specially designed for children and families.
You can enjoy this experience together, in one of two
ways: either by playing as a family or by participating
in a supervised interactive workshop.
In the middle of this area, there is a large model of the
town built entirely from LEGO.
In the workshop, you will find a scale representation of this imaginary town with its numerous interconnecting and co-existing modes of transport. This
is the starting point for older children (7+ years) to
play “your own journey.” In this game, the first team
to connect the greatest number of tourist destinations
wins – but beware! Danger lurks!
A large mural of the town extends along the wall incorporating about twenty LEGO mosaics, depicting
all the different types of transport: pushchair, scooter,
bike, moped, small car etc.
Series of symposiums and conferences
Symposium - Wednesday 23 May 2012, all day
A debate focusing on key architectural projects which
redefine circulation space in the urban landscape. The
projects, presented by their architects, will be followed
by a discussion on the challenges and resources of these
multimodal spaces set against the demands of cities
and their influence.
Encounters - Wednesday 16, 23, 30 May 2012
from 7pm-8.30pm
Three fabulous meetings and four conferences will
be held over the course of the exhibition, providing
a forum for exchanges between intellectuals and key
players in the world of travel ( transport contractors,
planner, builders)
Conferences – Tuesday March 5, Wednesday 6,
Thursday 7 and Friday 8 June 2012, 7-9pm
Four fabulous conferences, exploring the opinions of authors who have contributed to the exhibition catalogue..
Free entry (limited number of spaces).
Subject to change. For further information and full
programme : citechaillot.fr
Architectural and literary encounters
Mobile territories
The youngest visitors, together with their parents, can
then compile a list of the different types of transport
and reproduce the image using the vast array of bricks
available. Let your imagination run wild!
As an introduction to the exhibition, we have
organized a series of meetings between artists and
writers on the subject “Mobile territories.”
Entry free for visitors with ticket for main exhibition,
Circuler. Quand nos mouvements façonnent les villes.
Free entry for under 12 years. Reduced entry for under
25s: €5. Full rate: €8
Jean-Marie Duthilleul, architect-engineer, and Sorman, author of L’inhabitable and Paris Gare du
Nord, and other works, hosted by Philippe Trétiack,
ELLE and Beaux Arts magazine.
Workshop (7 years +)
Friday 16 March, 7pm
Wednesday and Saturday, 3.30pm.
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, 3.30pm from 14-29 April.
Duration: 1.5 hours. Price of workshop: €8.
The workshop ticket includes admittance to the exhibition
Circuler. Quand nos mouvements façonnent les villes,
if purchased on the same day.
Friday 9 March at 7pm
Alexandre Chemetoff, architect, urban-planner and
landscape architect, and Jean-Christophe Bailly, author of Le dépaysement. Voyages en France and other
works (Prize December 2011) hosted by François
Chaslin, Métropolitains, France Culture.
Programme devised in partnership with AFEX, and with
the support of AMC, France Culture and the Salon du
Livre. Free entry (limited number of seats available)
Audiovisual programme
Movement in cinema, town and beyond
Catalogue
Architectural series
10 days / 10 films / 1.30pm
From Saturday 21 to Monday 30 April 2012
Under the direction of Jean-Marie Duthilleul
This current series complements the exhibition Circuler.
Quand nos mouvements façonnent les villes. Over a period
of 10 days, 10 unique feature-length films, from different
eras and using different techniques, deal with the subject
of motion through the prism of the 7th art form
Saturday 21 April Speed.
Film by Jan de Bont. USA, 1994. 1hr56.
Sunday 22 April Peur sur la ville.
Film by Henri Verneuil. France/Italiy1975. 2hr.
Monday 23 April Voyage à Tokyo.
Film by Yasujiro Ozu. Japan, 1953. 2hr16.
Tuesday 24 April Route One/USA.
Film by Robert Kramer. USA, 1989. 4hr15.
Fee for all entries.
Wednesday 25 April Central do Brasil.
Film by Walter Salles. Brazil, 1998. 1hr46.
Thursday 26 April Pépé Le Moko.
Film by Julien Duvivier. France, 1937. 1hr30.
Friday 27 April Alice dans les villes.
Film by Wim Wenders. Germany, 1973. 1hr47.
Saturday 28 April Stranger than Paradise.
Film by Jim Jarmusch. USA, 1984. VOSTF. 1hr26.
Sunday 29 April Demonlover.
Film by Olivier Assayas. France, 2002. 2hr.
Monday 30 April Sous toi la ville.
Film by Christoph Hochhäusler. Germany, 2010. 1hr50.
Attended by Christoph Hochhäusler.
Circuler. Quand nos mouvements façonnent les villes.
Contributors : Georges Amar, Paul Andreu, Maurice
Culot, Jean-Marie Duthilleul, Vincent Kaufmann,
François Laisney, Bertrand Lemoine, Bruno Marzloff,
Ariella Masboungi, Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, Antoine Picon,
Simone Roux, Jean Viard etc.
Joint publishers : Alternatives / Cité de l’architecture
& du patrimoine / 208 pages / 20x24cm / Four colour
process /€32 (inclusive of all taxes) / In French /
Separate English edition
Exhibition Circuler. Quand nos
mouvements façonnent les villes
(Flow. When movement shapes
our towns)
Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine
Palais de Chaillot / 1 place du Trocadéro / Paris 16e
Mo Trocadéro
Open every day, 11am - 7pm; Thursday open until
9pm. Closed Tuesday
Full price : €8 / Reduced price : €5
Exhibition designed and curated by la Cité
de l’architecture & du patrimoine and l’AREP.
Curator: Jean-Marie Duthilleul
Set design: AREP
Exhibition partners
The Exhibition Circuler. Quand nos mouvements
façonnent les villes was produced
In collaboration with the Goethe Institut, Paris. Price per
session €4 / Reduced price €2. Entry free with exhibition
ticket for same day (except Tuesday 24 April when there is
a fee for all entries).For programme and detailed information: citechaillot.fr
in partnership with
Orange
Fondation d’Entreprise Bouygues Immobilier
Fondation PSA Peugeot Citroën
Siemens France
Auditorium, 7 avenue Albert de Mun, Paris 16e
and with the support of
Samsung Electronics France
Société du Grand Paris
Établissement public d'aménagement
de La Défense Seine Arche
Institut national de l’audiovisuel
Smartphone Application
This application, which can be downloaded from 20
March, includes an interview with Jean-Marie Duthilleul,
an exhibition trailer, a slideshow of key images (diaporama), film extracts, an audio game in which you use
sounds to recognize different parts of a town, and a schedule of exhibition-related activities. It will also be useful
when visiting the exhibition.
Can be downloaded for free from AppStore, Android Market
and using the QR code on the exhibition poster.
With the cooperation of
LeadingFrog ; Nacarat ; Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
Ainsi que BAC films ; Gaumont Pathé Archives,
LEGO® et Tarkett.