In ‘A Studio for Orbanism’, a team of architecture students collaborates with T.O.P. office on some of the bureau’s many future plans. For this they use T.O.P. office’s archive as an open source for the architectural discipline. You can view the result from 27 April at DE SINGEL.
‘A Studio for Orbanism’ centres on the following core question: how can we preserve, continue and disseminate Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office’s potential for social reflection by means of design practice and design education?
For the duration of the ‘Future Plans’ exhibition, students from the various architectural courses in Flanders and Brussels temporarily join the T.O.P. office team. The studio acts as a virtual space in which architects and students link up the archive academically. An important element in this, alongside the material and digital archive, is the immaterial legacy, ‘the spirit of T.O.P. office’. This translates into an unusual way of working, or expertise with regard to the development of the concept of ‘design-based research’, design strategies, the layered designs and the focus with which work on a single master drawing is approached.
The result can be viewed from 27.04.2021 to 02.05.2021 at deSingel and via an online showcase on the ‘Future Plans’ project page.
The exhibition Future Plans 1970-2020 is one of the main activities in the programme by the Flanders Architecture Institute and deSingel in the spring of 2021 around the artist-architect Luc Deleu and his firm T.O.P. office. Curators Peter Swinnen and Anne Judong enjoyed nine months of unlimited access to the archives of T.O.P. office. The title also serves as the filter through which to explore the living archive. Which projects, whether conceived in the 1970s or 2000s, hold the intelligent promise of a future plan? And how can they ignite the designers, architects, urban designers, ecologists, lawyers, administrations and policy makers of today and tomorrow? A future plan in itself.
27.04.2021-02.05.2021
From Wednesday to Sunday from 2 pm to 7 pm and during evening performances until 10 pm
free
DE SINGEL (Wandelgangen)
Desguinlei 25
2018
Antwerp
Vlaams Architectuurinstituut
Andreas Nonneman, Sára Gránásy, Pauline Borremans, Arnaud Mewis, Pim Van Reempt, Roxanne Put, Mirte Clerix, Marie Cornoedus, Seppe Feijen
To make your visit as safe as possible, you must respect the following measures:
* Face masks are mandatory in all public areas of DE SINGEL
* Keep 1.5m away from other visitors at all times
* Payments at the book counter are only done electronically
* Individual online registration for exhibitions in the Expo is mandatory (max. 20 people per time slot)
In 2020–2021 we are celebrating 50 years of unsolicited practice by Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office. To mark this anniversary, the Flanders Architecture Institute, is launching the Future Plans project. The aim is to preserve, continue and disseminate the potential of T.O.P. office’s reflection on society from the perspective of design practice and design education. The project translates concretely into a book, an exhibition and a documentary.
