«Des climats, des tribus et des corps», Tarik Oualalou, architecte, Oualalou+Choi, Paris, Casablanca

The Chaillot Talks are monthly lectures given by a French or international architect, urban planner, or landscape architect about their work and projects, their thinking, approach, and methods. In partnership with the Architecture Gallery, the featured architect this November is Tarik Oualalou. © Boegly+Grazia The Architecture Gallery presents the exhibition "Built/Unbuilt/Unbuildable" by Linna Choi and Tarik Oualalou, from November 4 to December 2, 2023. The installation is a meditation on the functions of architecture and its relationship to reality. It questions its construction and its constructibility. This collection of one hundred projects, developed by the Oualalou + Choi studio over the past twenty years, transcends scale, the constraints of use, and the specificities of geography. This project library is a compressed collection from which emerge questions about the relationship between architecture and nature and matter, about the need to imagine new forms of organization for our communities, and about the remaining capabilities of our bodies. Built – This collection includes completed and ongoing projects, places where thought has been embodied in matter. Unbuilt – This collection comprises projects that, while not built, are explorations of constructible and desirable architectures, discontinuous trajectories whose echoes can be found in built materials. Unbuildable – This is speculative, non-constructible thought, that of research and teaching, freed from scale, gravity, and matter. It allows us to push the boundaries of practice and nourish the imagination.