Release of the two books accompanying the exhibition "4° Celsius between you and me"
Two books have been published to accompany the exhibition: “4° Celsius entre toi et moi”, the bilingual French and English exhibition catalog published by ACTAR in Barcelona, which also invites a dozen architecture critics to reflect on the aesthetic and social transformations of cities with global warming, as well as a book of literature “4° Celsius entre toi et moi” published in French in paperback by Éditions POINTS, in which ten French-speaking writers place the climate at the center of fiction
Curators: Philippe Rahm and Sana Frini, architects
“4° Celsius entre toi et moi” is the bilingual French and English catalogue of the exhibition of the 3rd Île-de-France Architecture and Landscape Biennial, 2025, curated by Sana Frini and Philippe Rahm, published by ACTAR in Barcelona.
The catalog explores urban and architectural strategies in latitudes with climates that are already warm, as a model for building tomorrow in latitudes further north that are warming up. 120 vernacular buildings from before air conditioning were climatically analyzed by a dozen universities around the world. 58 contemporary architects presented their projects built in the already warm regions of the planet, and a dozen architectural critics were invited to reflect on the aesthetic and social transformation of cities with global warming.
With the collaboration of:
UNIVERSITIES:
Columbia University ; Cornell University; École Nationale d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de Tunis; École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Haute école d'art et de design de Genève; National University of Singapore; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Sapienza Università di Roma; Texas Tech University ; The Ohio State University; The University of Texas at Austin; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
ARCHITECTS:
Al Borde, Banduksmith, H&P Architects, Isla and Paparkone, Manuel Bouzas, Sealab, Septembre Architecture, Aziza Chaouni, Civil Architecture, Colectivo Warehouse, Hood Design Studio, Ignacio Urquiza and Ana Paula de Alba, in collaboration with Naso, Projectiles, Souleima Fourati, Takk, Worofila, Khristian Ceballos Ugarte, Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, APC, Roman Bauer Arquitectos, BIAS, Estudio Flume, Harquitectes , Lanza, Luo Studio, MAS, Max Von Werz , Modu , Salazar Sequero Medina, Shau, Tropical Space, Colectivo C733, alsar-atelier, Bajet Girarmé, Fleury Atallah Architectes, Gustavo Utrabo, Husos Arquitecturas, Natura Futura, New South, PontoAtelier, Rozana Montiel, Taller de Arquitectura | Mauricio Rocha
ARCHITECTURAL CRITICS:
Daniel Barber, Pierre Charbonnier, Beatriz Colomina, Rob Dunn, Pedro Gadanho, Béatrice Grenier, Lisa Heschong, Simone Horner, Gabriel Kogan, Eduardo Prieto, Carolyn Steel, Germán Valenzuela, Mark Wigley
FILMMAKERS :
Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Younes Ben Slimane
PUBLISHING DIRECTORS
Philippe Rahm, Sana Frini
Catalog for the “4° Celsius between you and me” exhibition at the 3rd Biennale d'Architecture et de Paysage d'Île-de-France, 2025
Architecture
ACTAR Publishers, Barcelona, Spain
Publication date 02/05/2025
35 € INCL. VAT
312 pages
ISBN 978–16–384–0184–1
“4 Degrés Celsius entre toi et moi” is a book of unpublished literature published in French in paperback by Éditions POINTS in Paris, France, where in ten unpublished short stories, ten French-speaking writers put climate at the heart of fiction, namely Aurélien Bellanger, Marie Darrieussecq, Célia Houdart, Annie Lulu, Marielle Macé, Yamen Manaï, Samy Manga, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Peter Stamm, Abdourahman Waberi, under the editorial direction of Jean-Max Colard, Sana Frini, Philippe Rahm and Dominic Thomas.
“In recent years, the human sciences have restored non-human subjects to their role in the unfolding of world history. Volcanic explosions, droughts and epidemics are all natural causes that play a central role in explaining the transformations of our societies. But what about literature? Isn't it time the natural world played a major role in the unfolding of a story? Rather than a mere backdrop against which human actions unfold, the climate should today be fully considered as one of the novel's main players, a character in its own right, sparking tragedy and romance. This is what we can see in the short stories proposed by Aurélien Bellanger, Marie Darrieussecq, Célia Houdart, Annie Lulu, Marielle Macé, Yamen Manaï, Samy Manga, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Peter Stamm and Abdourahman Waberi, who have been invited to imagine the world of global warming, with temperatures rising by +4 degrees Celsius, that of France by 2100.”
With the collaboration of:
WRITERS:
Aurélien Bellanger, Marie Darrieussecq, Célia Houdart, Annie Lulu, Marielle Macé, Yamen Manaï, Samy Manga, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Peter Stamm, Abdourahman Waberi.
PUBLISHING DIRECTORS
Jean-Max Colard, Sana Frini, Philippe Rahm, Dominic Thomas
French literature
Published by POINTS, Paris, France
Publication date 02/05/2025
7.90 € INCL. VAT
224 pages
EAN 9791041424696
For the BAP! exhibition, the Volume bookshop is taking up residence at the Versailles tourist office, opposite the Versailles Rive-Gauche / Château station.
Here you can discover and buy the 2 publications, as well as a selection of works related to the exhibition.
→The Volume bookshop at BAP!
→ Order the architecture catalog
→ Order the literature book
