Pierre-Louis Faloci – Architectures et Paysages

From 11 July to 26 September 2025, discover the latest exhibition presented by the Première Rue association, at the Unité d’habitation in Briey.

Winner of the Grand Prix National d’Architecture (2018), Pierre-Louis Faloci is one of the most cultivated figures on the contemporary architectural scene.

Nice, his home town, was the source of his visual training. He has retained an acute sense of urbanity and a keen curiosity about the work of artists and film-makers, whose poetic universe he tirelessly explores. His vocation as an architect was born of an optical shock – the construction of a screen building in front of the family home, which deprived the modest dwelling of his childhood of the sumptuous view over the Mediterranean. From his studies in Paris, Pierre-Louis Faloci learned a lesson in accuracy and humility from Georges-Henri Pingusson, whom he considers to be his true teacher. His visits to the Cinémathèque, Gilles Deleuze’s course on “ image-movement and image-time” and Hubert Damisch’s seminar on “ the origin of perspective” have had a lasting influence on his career. A passionate builder, Pierre-Louis Faloci has placed the question of landscape at the heart of his project practice. From the Cacela Velha wine farm in Portugal to the Mont Beuvray archaeological centre, from the Avesnes-sur-Helpe courthouse to the Mariana museum in Haute-Corse, his work is deeply rooted in the landscape.

The aim of the Première Rue exhibition is to give the general public access, through a selection of nine exceptional buildings (some in the Grand-Est region), to one of the most significant architectural approaches of the current period.
 
Joseph Abram 

Programme 2025 of the association La Première Rue.

© Daniel Osso