Looking Up In Paris

Raise your eyes, look up, discover or rediscover Paris from this particular angle and let the city tell its story. “Looking Up in Paris” invites you to observe what makes up and adorns roofs and facades - domes, lanterns, pediments, statues, high and low reliefs, caryatids and atlatls, mascarons, ceramic panels and many other objects and decorative motifs - and to discover the designers of these works - architects, engineers, artists - and the context of their creation. In this way, we reconnect with the world of the past, with the artistic currents and scientific advances that paved the way for incredible technical prowess, with the political, economic, social and cultural changes linked to the monuments and buildings that make up the urban landscape. We also look at more recent initiatives that contribute to renewing the dialogue with the city and improving the living environment through a skilful marriage of nature and stone: street art and green façades.