About the program
The exhibition Living With / Vivre Avec explores how architecture can respond to the global instability of our era—marked by conflict, climate crisis, and displacement—by embracing change rather than resisting it. It calls for an architecture that sustains life on a fragile planet, blending memory and innovation, continuity and transformation. Through six themes and international projects, the exhibition showcases how design can foster resilience, adaptability, and collective care in uncertain times.
Living With / Vivre Avec was first created for the French Pavilion at the XIX Venice Architecture Biennale, and commissioned by the Institut français with Dominique Jakob and Brendan Macfarlane lead curators in association with Eric Daniel-Lacombe and Martin Duplantier.
The itinerant version of this exhibition, presented here in Chicago, is commissioned by Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, and made possible by the generous sponsorship of Saint-Gobain, worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction.
The exhibition design was conceived in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. It was facilitated by Civic Projects Architecture.
