Since mid-February, as part of the JAMAICAN exhibition, MACTe has opened its doors to Caribbean architecture students from the Caribbean School of Architecture (CSA) of Kingston as part of its efforts to establish cultural links with the Caribbean.
The exhibition JAMAICAN, co-produced by the Maison de l’Architecture de Guadeloupe (MAG) and the MACTe, illustrates through the work of students from the Caribbean School of Architecture (CSA), the vitality of Caribbean architectural education. Their vision, in resonance with the interventions of artists such as Anaïs VERSPAN, Anthony VILA (Antonwé), Reid Van RENESSE and François PIQUET can be seen in the FORUM space of MACTe, a third place inaugurated for the occasion on February 25th. (see pictures on page 80 of this magazine)
To illustrate this coming together between Guadeloupe and Jamaica and to embody at best this cultural cooperation, a delegation travelled from Kingston at the end of last April. In the presence of the French Ambassador to Jamaica, Mr. Olivier GUYONVARCH, the Director of the CSA, Mrs. Jacquiann T. LAWTON and Stephen JAMESON, professor-architect; eight student-exhibitors could also discover Guadeloupe and its multiple facets.
Their program, punctuated with many highlights, encouraged meetings and sharing of experiences with Guadeloupean students, sensitive to architectural issues. The thesis projects of the future architects of the CSA being about urbanism and the development of the spaces of Lauricisque, Jarry and Grand Camp, their subject inevitably aroused a great interest.
Jacquiann T. LAWTON, Director of the CSA and member of the jury of the Prix de l’Architecture de Guadeloupe (PAG), animated an evening meeting to develop the theme “sense(…)ability and architectural creation”. Her enlightened speech allowed to translate a little more the urban twinship between Kingston and Pointe-à-Pitre, by insisting on the exchange of visions, knowledge and experiences related to architecture and planning.
These multiple convergent approaches will have allowed, in the exceptional presence of Ambassador Olivier Guyonvarch, to agree on the interest to perpetuate sustainable inter-Caribbean relations. According to Laurella YSSAP-RINCON, Executive Director of MACTe, new trails of collaboration, even more advanced, are being explored.
Following the success of the two current exhibitions linked to its cycle dedicated to Architecture, the MACTe has decided to extend JAMAICAN and PAG until June 21st, still in free access.
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