The Festival of Lively Architecture in Montpellier will be held for the fourth consecutive year in Languedoc, Roussillon. 

The locations chosen are in ad equation with the historic city. One of the treasure of the region is the presence in the cities downtown of numerous private mansions. Today Montpellier counts more that seventy private mansions and as more courtyards. This way the goal of the Festival in Montpellier is on one hand to open up to the inhabitants, during the festival these emblematic places and on the other hand – thanks to the interventions of teams or creators who will present a specific work in each and every place – to reveal an intimate relationship between contemporary architecture, an installation and heritage.

4th FESTIVAL OF LIVELY ARCHITECTURES IN MONTPELLIER from 18th to 21st June 2009
Lively Architecture to discover

Lively architecture will penetrate and appropriate themselves the courtyards of private mansions of the very heart of Montpellier.

The festival aims at welcoming a large audience as well as the field of architecture. It attaches great value to introducing and highlighting the work of a new generation of creators… But it also wants to highlight forgotten eras and places, and allow us to discover unexpected urban territories.

The festival offers a walk through the city, sort of an architecture discovery in the very heart of the city. This walk links together private mansions of the 17th century and their courtyards that are often closed to public, and only open to their inhabitants. The city of Montpellier possesses more than seventy private mansions, providing the escucheon of Montpellier proper characteristics.

The aims of the Festival are on one side to open these emblematic sites to the audience.
And on the second hand, thanks to the intervention of teams of young creators to present a unique architecture, conceived for one particular site, and to reveal an intimate relationship between contemporary architecture and heritage.
From June 18th – 21st 2009, about ten lively architecture dreamed and conceived by architects will take place in the courtyards of private mansion in the centre of Montpellier. Each architecture is conceived for the festival and will answer the thematic set for this new edition of the Festival Architecture Vives 2009: short-lived curiosities.

For further information visit: www.favmontpellier.nerim.net.