For 40 years now, the Fondation Cartier has been exploring architectural discipline by collecting and exhibiting it, as well as by questioning its history and its present, thereby contributing to a museographic innovation through the architecture of its exhibition spaces.
By treating it as both an object of knowledge and a sensory experience, the Fondation Cartier has transformed its mode of presentation, making the exhibition a place of memory as much as of invention of new forms.
It explores its practices, histories and mutations, while actively participating in their renewal.
Through fragments of architecture, urban projects, drawings, models and photographs, the works in the collection bear witness to multiple appropriations of the discipline, which they claim as a transformative force open to the future.