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Agora 2014
Biennial of Architecture, Planning and Design, Bordeaux
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Location:
Bordeaux
Area:
643,000 sqm
Status:
Completed 2014
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Type
Curatorial
Director General of Planning
Michèle Laruë-Charlus
General Commissioner
YTAA - Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates
Scenographer
Inside Outside - Pétra Blaisse
Critic and journalist
Karine Dana
Director of six films for Agora 2014
Gladys Joujou
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For each edition of the Agora exposition, the City of Bordeaux appoints a commissioner along with a set designer and a graphic designer.
Meanwhile, a team from Bordeaux builds and coordinates the Biennale and implements the Agora event. In 2014, with its theme of ‘The Public Space’, YTAA’s Youssef Tohme was appointed commissioner of the exposition, saying at the time; “The public space is a valuable field for the transformation of everyday life. Because it is the space of possibilities, it has the power to draw us out of ourselves. Its value depends on its potential for experience and adventure.”
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Agora - 2014
2013 press conference with Alain Juppé, Mayor of Bordeaux, and Youssef Tohme, curator of the 2014 Agora architecture biennale.
Agora - 2014
As part of the 2014 Agora architecture biennale, Youssef Tohme discusses the Brazza Bordeaux project.
Agora - 2014
In-depth 2014 interview with Youssef Tohme on the evolving concept of ‘the public space’.
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Publications
Le Moniteur -
October 2014
“I wanted people to see Agora as a place to invest, I want visitors will revel and partake in the experience of the public space.”
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Bauwelt -
October 2014
“The city on the Garonne makes it clear how urban development can be discussed between architects and residents.”
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Maison Française Magazine -
September / October 2014
“The public space is the theme chosen for Agora 2014. Fashionable, shared, political, conflicting sometimes also threatened, it represents indeed a difficult concept to grasp, to which everyone has his vision or claims.”
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Rue89 Bordeaux -
September 2014
“Agora is over, but am I satisfied? We must ask the Bordelais! Because in the end, the subject of the public space, as you know, generates many different opinions!”
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Sud Ouest -
September 2014
“Awaken the individual. The Lebanese architect Youssef Tohme is the curator of Agora 2014. The Bordeaux architecture biennale this year addresses the public space.”
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EK Magazine -
August / September 2014
“To be successful, a public space should create a link between the individual and their society; it’s a connection that can be extremely fragile in nature.”
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Rue89 Bordeaux -
July 2014
“At the end of 2012, the city of Bordeaux invited the architect and urban planner Youssef Tohme to pilot the Brazza neighbourhood developement in collaboration with the landscape architect Michel Desvigne and the design office Ingérop. He will also be the curator of the Agora biennale in September.”
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Le Festin -
July 2014
Award Winning Architecture. The 6th Bordeaux Biennial of Architectural, Urbanism and Design, which will take place from 11 to 24 September, has been in preparation since April. Here, with pictures, are the architectural prize winners.
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Courrier Gironde -
June 2014
“Society changes, the economy too, but the public space evolves more slowly. We are questioning the essence of the public space.”
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Stradda supplement -
June 2014
Agora, a biennial event of architecture, design and town planning in Bordeaux, is looking at ‘the public space’ for this edition. Its curator is the Franco-Lebanese architect-planner Youssef Tohme, with the Dutch scenographer Petra Blaisse. On the menu: an exhibition at the H14, a program with debates open to all.
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Residences decoration -
June 2014
Enjoy the 6th edition of Agora, the Bordeaux Biennale, and discover the 19 projects awarded as part of this event dedicated to architecture, urban planning and design.
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Sud Ouest -
June 2014
“Agora is pushing its boundaries in to the public space. With a headline theme of the public space, it’s also giving pride of place to culture.”
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Sud Ouest -
March 2014
“A public space is successful when one feels at home, when we feel there's attachment to the society”.
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L'Express -
December 2013 / January 2014
“Youssef Tohme, architect and curator of the 2014 edition of Agora, and Michèle Laruë-Charlus, the city’s director general of development, lay the foundations of the biennial’s architecture and urbanism.”
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Vivre en Gironde -
June 2013
“Alain Juppé and Youssef Tohme present the main lines of Agora, a biennial of architecture, urban planning and design for the city of Bordeaux.”
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