ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AS A VISION OF FUTURISTIC LIVING ON PARIS’S PERIPHERY, NOISY-LE-GRAND CONTINUES TO REFLECT THE REMNANTS OF ITS POST-WAR UTOPIAN IDEALS, LENDING SYMBOLIC WEIGHT TO PHILIA’S DECISION TO SITUATE THE STRATES EXHIBITION THERE. WHILE THE EXHIBITION RETRACES PHILIA’S DECADE-LONG JOURNEY THROUGH KEY WORKS FROM ITS ROSTER OF ARTISTS, SEVERAL NEW COMMISSIONS RESPOND DIRECTLY TO THE ARCHITECTURE. STRATES ALSO FORMS PART OF A WIDER CIVIC AND CULTURAL SHIFT IN NOISY-LE-GRAND, WHERE THE CITY AND LOCAL PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT COMPANY SOCAREN ARE RETHINKING HOW ITS MONUMENTAL MODERNIST FABRIC CAN EVOLVE.