France’s leading architecture centers, arc en rêve and the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, will soon be showcasing the agency’s work on territory and the sacred in architecture.
Sacred places – Building, Celebrating, Coexisting
From February 27, 2025 under the forecourt of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral
Opening: March 5th
The Pavillon de l’Arsenal’s first “hors les murs” exhibition, this presentation explores the place of the sacred in Greater Paris.
The exhibition highlights the multiple forms of sacredness – religious, memorial, natural – that continue to shape the city.
Venue: Espace Notre Dame, 6 Rue de la Cité, Paris 4th arrondissement
© loto archilab – Arte Charpentier
In the commune of Bussy-Saint-Georges (Seine-et-Marne), on the Esplanade of Religions, the firm is building the first traditional Hindu temple in the European Union. This unique project, symbolizing a cultural bridge between India and France, will be presented alongside the emblematic sacred sites of the Greater Paris region.
New seasons: Portraits of a territory, from 02.20 to 12.28.25 at arc en rêve, Bordeaux
Opening: February 20th
This exhibition questions the representations of urbanism inhabited by over 1,620,000 people between the Bordeaux metropolis and the Gironde.
It brings together the visions of institutional, professional and amateur actors to make legible a contemporary landscape in constant evolution.
Venue: arc en rêve architecture center, Bordeaux
On this occasion, the video Drawings of a vineyard territory will be screened there for the first time.
In June 2023, the French Ministry of Agriculture and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region launched a plan to uproot 10% of Bordeaux’s vineyards, twice the size of the city of Bordeaux. The cause is a vine disease – flavescence dorée – and significant overproduction. This raises the question of the future of this territory and the transformation of the landscape to come, particularly in the face of the challenges posed by climate change. Architects, landscape architects and researchers from the Arte Charpentier agency are taking an interest in these transformations, entering into dialogue with researchers, winegrowers, merchants and elected representatives to understand the issues and ingredients involved in the transformation of a geographical territory. The film bears witness to this research and transcribes the interweaving of viewpoints.
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Antonio Frausto Associate Architect,
Architecture Director
EDUCATION
DPLG Architecture Diploma with jury’s congratulations – School of Architecture, UNAM, Mexico (2002)
Visual Arts studies – UNAM, Faculty of Arts & Design (1992-1994)
TEACHING
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, since 2007
Pedagogical Director at the École d’Art Américaine in Fontainebleau, since 2006
CONFERENCES
National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM
Hong-Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
Paris- Belleville School of Architecture
École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires in Marne-la-Vallée
Higher Institute of Civil Engineering, ESTP
JURY
Agora d’Evry / public facilities
Wellbuilding 2050 international competition
EXTRA-DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES
Administrator for AFEX (French Architects Overseas)
Head of Latin-American working group
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Nathalie Leroy Landscape Designer, Associate
Landscape Director
EDUCATION
Landscape Architect DPLG – École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles
Textile Design Diploma – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
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Georges Souaid Architect
EDUCATION
Master in Architecture – ENSA Versailles, France (2022)Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, with honors – Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts-ALBA, Beirut, Lebanon (2019) -
Hélène Garcia Communication
EDUCATION
National Superior Diploma of Plastic Arts – Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2012)Bachelor’s degree, Erasmus exchange – Central St-Martins of London (2011)Bachelor of Fine Arts – Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2010)
