Festival of Lively Architecture

Announcing the 4th staging of the Festival of Lively Architecture to be held in Montpellier, France on the 18th to 21st June 2009.

The festival offers a walking tour of the city, envisoned as an architecture discovery that opens, often closed to public, 17th century mansions and their intimate courtyards.

The city of Montpellier possesses more than seventy private mansions, providing the escucheon of Montpellier proper characteristics.

The aims of the Festival are two fold, firstly to open these otherwise private mansions to a public audience, and thanks to the interventions of young architects & designers, present a unique dialogue - between contemporary architecture and heritage, conceived specifically for the festival.