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Call for Projects: Flanders Architectural Review N°15

In the autumn of 2022, the Flanders Architecture Institute will publish the newest edition of the Flanders Architectural Review. This biennial series of publications will be in its fifteenth edition next year. Each time, the Architectural Review brings together the most remarkable architectural projects in Flanders and Brussels, as well as the international work of architects from Flanders and Brussels. For each edition the Flanders Architecture Institute puts together a new editorial board who work on the book based on project submissions. Upload your project(s) by 17 September.

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15th edition of Flanders Architectural Review

For the Flanders Architectural Review N°15, we invite architects, clients, urban planners, landscape architects and other spatial designers to submit their projects of exceptional architectural quality. This edition too will be an anthology and a moment of reflection on the richness and diversity of contemporary architectural production. The editors will work on the basis of the submitted projects and are looking forward to studying the spatial challenges, the surprising answers and the social position in your recent work.

Since its first edition in 1994, the Flanders Architectural Review has grown into a touchstone for the growing quality of architecture from this region. Within a now highly developed architectural scene, it holds recent production against the light of social, political and spatial changes. After all, architectural quality arises from a well-considered relationship to its context. On the scale of the project, this can be the urban, programmatic or socio-economic context of the design. But at a more general level, it is the broader context of social challenges with a spatial component, such as reuse, densification or mobility. The Architectural Review therefore aims to use good architecture to chart the relevant social position of designers and the wider architectural field.

Editorial board

The Flanders Architectural Review N°15 editorial board consists of:

Sofie De Caigny, Maarten Desmet, Hülya Ertas, Marleen Goethals, Petrus Kemme, Mark Pimlott, Martino Tattara and Kiki Verbeeck.

    Practical information

    The submitted projects must meet the following conditions:

    • The Flanders Architectural Review documents projects in Flanders and Brussels and international realisations by architects from Flanders and Brussels.
    • Non-built projects, artistic works, design research and scenographies are eligible provided they are relevant to contemporary architectural production in Flanders and Brussels.
    • Submitted projects must be completed between May 2019 and November 2021*. The editors will visit a selection of projects starting in the autumn of 2021 and should be able to get a clear picture of the project there and then.
      *N.B.: This period was originally communicated in error. We apologise for any adjustment to your selection of submitted projects as a result of this miscommunication.

    Each submission consists of a project sheet filled in on our website and includes:

    • The necessary information about the project and the parties involved
    • A descriptive text about the project of max. 150 words
    • An additional text of max. 150 words in which you draw the editor's attention to the exceptional qualities of the project
    • A limited selection of 5 representative images. Each picture should be numbered, and bear the name of the architectural firm and the photographer (in .png. or .jpg format, max. 16 MB per file)
      Note: The images accompanying the submission are for editorial purposes only and do not need to be professional photographs. If a project is selected for publication, a larger set of high resolution images will be requested later on in the process.
    • A limited selection of 5 drawings (e.g. 1 site plan, 3 floor plans and 1 section). Each drawing is numbered, and has the name of the architectural firm, a drawing scale, and a north arrow (in pdf format, max. 16 MB per file)

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    Deadline

    Entries must be uploaded by Friday, 17 September 2021. We do not ask for paper submissions. For more information, please contact petrus.kemme@vai.be, or call +32 3 242 89 70.

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    Practical

    The Flanders Architecture Institute offers a buildings database on its website. This is an online digital archive on contemporary architecture in Flanders and Brussels. The database consists of a public and a non-public section. When you send us your data you agree that this data will be stored in the non-public part of the database with the possibility that in the future the Flanders Architecture Institute will give free international access to this data through the public part of the database. Contact details will never be disclosed through the public section of the database. For as long as the copyrights on the data are valid, they will of course remain your property. You do, however, give the Flanders Architecture Institute permission to make this information available to the public free of charge. You are responsible for the content you provide and you guarantee that you are authorised to upload the data to the non-public section of the buildings database. In other words, you license the rights that you own and control. You have the right to have this data changed or deleted at any time.

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