This exhibition calls for attentive and prolonged examination of its contents, a quality but also a constraint for some visitors, who cast a quick glance over the architecture without fully grasping the meaning behind the proposals.

During his speech to open the Pavilion, Frédéric Bonnet was keen to remind everyone that if we are to cope with today’s social and ecological issues we must turn to informed designers who know that architecture creates riches far beyond its built spaces. Fatalistically and despite everything Bonnet pointed out, “Mediocrity still seems to have the upper hand.”