At the Versailles Biennale, architecture and landscape confront climate

"The climate, the climate, yes, but is it still a question of architecture with all this?" protested a man with a smooth head and a royal blue shirt, sitting in the middle of the amphitheater, after the presentation of the program for the Architecture and Landscape Biennale, which has been held since the beginning of May and runs until July 13, in Versailles.

The curators of five of the nine exhibitions in this third edition briefly summarized their remarks, and the president of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, added to the point by citing the four wind towers that will soon cool the Nangis high school in Seine-et-Marne. That was too much.

Architects Sana Frini and Philippe Rahm responded most skillfully to this challenge. Since in 2100, the climate of Paris and its surrounding region will resemble that of southern Spain, Italy, or northern Africa, let's see what's already happening on this side of the globe, and has been for a very long time, they propose with "4 degrees Celsius between you and me," six sequences installed in the main gallery of the architecture school.

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