Architecture in Flanders

Flanders Architecture Yearbook, publication series
Every two years, the Flanders Architectural Yearbook offers a view of the architectural landscape in Flanders. It offers an insight into the local architectural developments by presenting a number of projects that are relevant in today’s architecture. Each project is documented with critiques, extensive illustrations and plans. All selected projects of the 2008 edition of the Yearbook are now online.
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Young Architects in Flanders, publication series
With the Young Architects in Flanders series, the Flemish Architecture Institute provides a forum for promising young architects, urban planners and researchers in Flanders. This generation currently occupies a relevant experimental position in architecture and related disciplines in the region. In their work, architecture assumes a wide variety of forms and expressions. Again and again it is given a new interpretation, sometimes less visible and even unprecedented. They were selected for being unexpected, original and of considerable importance regarding the position of, and critical reflection on, contemporary architecture in Flanders. Each exhibition is presented with a critical review.
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35m³ Young Architecture, exhibitions & texts
With 35m³, a project that ran from 2005 to 2008, deSingel and the Flemish Architecture Institute gave young Belgian architects a blank space in which to exhibit their practical work, their approach, their motives and their vision. The title refers to the volume (283 x 408 x 303 cm) inside which, either the current products of a new generation of architects, or their visions on paper were presented. This black monolith, with an interior like a white cube, was installed in the corridors of the international arts campus deSingel. Promising young architects offered a picture of their motivations, their approach and their practice by presenting one or more actual buildings, a statement, a vision, a theoretical reflection or question, an installation or whatever they wished. Critical texts were specially written by young architecture critics.
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1 to 1 Architecture, guided visits and texts
In 2009, the VAi organised a number of visits to recently constructed buildings by young designers and coupled these visits to writing assignments for young architecture critics. Acknowledging and discussing the diversity of architectural practices is, after all, the first step in debating architecture and both the designer and the critic have a crucial role to play. 1 to 1 offers young designers and architecture critics a platform to participate in the debate.
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Arts Flanders Architecture
ARTS FLANDERS 08 is an international promotional campaign for about 150 Flemish artists, ensembles or companies from varying artistic disciplines. A publication in 5 volumes – Architecture, Music, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Audiovisual Arts - provides an exciting overview of old names and emerging talent, and discusses the recent trends for each discipline.
The part on architecture, Arts Flanders 08 Architecture, draws a picture of the architectural practice in Flanders by presenting a number of recent architecture projects by Flemish designers and architecture firms. A topographical text by Koen Van Synghel comments on the various trends in architecture over the past ten years.
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