Bijou or blunder: our attitude towards building culture

Building culture is a matter of negotiation: What can or must be torn down to make way for something new? Who determines what is valuable and worthy of protection? This exhibition takes a light-hearted approach in encouraging us to look at our built environment and the different attitudes it inspires. It presents debates and deliberations, players and protagonists, conveying interesting facts about the protection of historical monuments and inviting the public to reflect on good building, but also to take a clear stand. Because everyone is affected by built world around us. An exhibition for people with a discerning eye held within an architectural bijou that was itself long the subject of negotiations.

The programme of events and activities accompanying the exhibition offers guided tours, debates and a crash course in “architectural criticism”, as well as a neighbourhood safari for families.