Walking Through Someone Else's Dream

The catalogue of the first Orléans Architecture Biennial, featuring 45 contemporary architects looking at ways of building a shared world, preceded by a series of texts devoted to the three key figures of this first biennial, Guy Rottier, Demas Nwoko and Patrick Bouchain. The third part of the catalogue presents a cartography of architectural research.

"For its first edition, the course of the Biennale d'Architecture d'Orléans identifies three paths to architecture: migration as the only destiny, architecture defined as a permanent ritornello between fiction and reality, and dreaming as a modus operandi for going beyond catastrophe to meet the other. It was through this triptych that we approached the guest architects. We asked them to discuss "the other of their architecture" - whether they were working on new projects or presenting their most recent research work - and to consider dreams as a point of convergence for utopia, experimentation, prospective and memory. We realised that the ongoing exchanges between all these paradigms give rise to an art of synthesis that the various exhibitions at this Biennial seek to bring to light. In this way, we are exploring a new prospective, a field of experimentation and innovation to bring about a non-static, non-dominant architecture of situations and, we hope, escape from the 'architectural chiourme'."