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Alexandre Chemetoff & Associés - Maison de l'Architecture

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<strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> & Associés « Droit <strong>de</strong> visite »<br />

<strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> est architecte, urbaniste, paysagiste.<br />

Au-<strong>de</strong>là <strong>de</strong> l’énoncé <strong>de</strong> ces trois titres, sa démarche ne cesse <strong>de</strong> croiser les disciplines en une seule, celle du projet.<br />

Il a choisi <strong>de</strong> pratiquer son activité d’une manière ouverte et libre, en refusant les limites et les frontières entre les disciplines. <strong>Chemetoff</strong><br />

couvre un champ que nombre d’architectes n’occupent plus désormais : celui <strong>de</strong> la ville, <strong>de</strong>puis la construction d’un mur à la<br />

réalisation d’un jardin ou au <strong>de</strong>ssin d’un mobilier.<br />

Aux généralités et aux constructions abstraites, <strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> préfère l’expression d’un point <strong>de</strong> vue rattaché à <strong>de</strong>s actions<br />

concrètes. Se situant volontiers en marge <strong>de</strong>s tendances dominantes, il cherche à construire une esthétique singulière qui puise<br />

ses sources dans le mon<strong>de</strong> environnant.<br />

Le projet est alors une manière <strong>de</strong> conduire une action, <strong>de</strong> regar<strong>de</strong>r, d’écouter, d’engager un dialogue, <strong>de</strong> faire <strong>de</strong> la politique au<br />

sens que l’on donne à ce mot quand il concerne la vie <strong>de</strong> la cité, pour produire <strong>de</strong>s lieux vivants et vivables, un environnement<br />

cultivé qu’il soit clos et couvert ou à ciel ouvert.<br />

Après l’exposition « Situations construites » qui s’est tenue à Bor<strong>de</strong>aux en 2009, la Ville <strong>de</strong> Genève, en partenariat avec la <strong>Maison</strong><br />

<strong>de</strong> l’architecture (ma-ge.ch) présentent <strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> & Associés « Droit <strong>de</strong> visite» au Forum Faubourg du 11 mai<br />

au 2 juillet 2010.<br />

L’exposition met en lumière un travail en cours, <strong>de</strong>s façons <strong>de</strong> faire, <strong>de</strong>s attitu<strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong> projet face à <strong>de</strong>s situations à chaque fois<br />

différentes et particulières.<br />

Plutôt qu’une vision exhaustive <strong>de</strong> l’ensemble du travail <strong>de</strong> l’agence à travers <strong>de</strong>s « images » <strong>de</strong>s réalisations, il s’agit d’explorer<br />

<strong>de</strong>s façons <strong>de</strong> développer <strong>de</strong>s projets, une métho<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> travail attentive au mon<strong>de</strong>, soucieuse <strong>de</strong>s contextes et d’une recherche <strong>de</strong><br />

l’économie tant financière que constructive.<br />

Un propos accompagne un ensemble <strong>de</strong> photographies, <strong>de</strong> plans, <strong>de</strong> maquettes, <strong>de</strong> matériaux, d’échantillons, d’images <strong>de</strong><br />

références, <strong>de</strong> livres, ... tout ce qui constitue l’environnement d’<strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> et qui permet <strong>de</strong> comprendre son travail et sa<br />

position transverse par rapport aux disciplines.<br />

<strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> & Associés « Droit <strong>de</strong> visite »<br />

<strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> is an architect, urban planner and landscaper.<br />

Beyond the wording of these three titles his approach is to continually combine these disciplines into one, namely the project.<br />

He has chosen to practice his activity in a free and open fashion by refusing to acknowedge the limits and bor<strong>de</strong>rs between the<br />

disciplines.<br />

<strong>Chemetoff</strong>’s field is one which a number of architects have ceased to occupy. It ranges from the building of a wall in the context of<br />

the town to the implantation of a gar<strong>de</strong>n or the <strong>de</strong>sign of urban furnishings.<br />

<strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> prefers, in the light of theoretical consi<strong>de</strong>rations, a point of view which is connected to concrete actions.<br />

<strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> willingly places himself at the margins of prevailing trends and seeks to create a unique aesthetic which<br />

draws on the sources of the surrounding world.<br />

The project is then the process of un<strong>de</strong>rtaking an action, of looking, of listening, of engaging in a dialogue, of political action in<br />

terms of how it effects the life of the city, and aims to create lively and livable places, a cultivated environment be it closed and<br />

covered or open to the sky.<br />

After the exhibition “Constructed Situations” was held at Bor<strong>de</strong>aux in 2009, the Ville <strong>de</strong> Genève in partnership with the <strong>Maison</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />

l’Achitecture (ma-ge.ch) presents <strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> & Associés « Droit <strong>de</strong> visite» at Forum Faubourg between 11th May<br />

and 2nd July 2010.<br />

The exhibiton shows his work in progress, his working methods and the approach of the project to situations which are always<br />

different and particular.<br />

Rather than providing an exhaustive vision ot the whole of the agency’s work through “images” of its achievements it sets out to explore<br />

the way in which projects are <strong>de</strong>veloped, a working method that respects the world, which is aware of its contexts and which<br />

seeks to be economical in both financial and constructive terms.<br />

A conversation comes with this collection of photographs, plans, mo<strong>de</strong>ls, materials, samples, source images, books… together<br />

they all constitute the environment of <strong>Alexandre</strong> <strong>Chemetoff</strong> and facilitate an un<strong>de</strong>rstanding of his work and his cross-disciplinary<br />

position.

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