Today's Gallery Tour: ARCHILAB. Collection du FRAC Centre

This exhibition, which brings together some 250 drawings and models from among the FRAC Centre’s most emblematic projects, offers a broad overview of architectural and urban experimentation, from the 1950s to now.
In 1960s Europe, a movement called “radical architecture” emerged. It aimed to go beyond architecture as a discipline by opening it up to conceptual and artistic practices. In the hands of radical groups, from Archigram to Superstudio, and Haus-Rucker-Co to Archizoom, who designed for every scale, from the house to the urban plan, architecture no longer comes across as a built object but as a perpetually reconfiguring environment, at one with the time of action.
Taking Guy Debord’s guide psychogéographique (1957) and Archigram’s project for an Instant City (1969), the exhibition opens with the idea of “mobility”, presenting an ephemeral and nomadic utopian city, animated by the flow of communication and constantly generating events.