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Call for Projects: Flanders Architectural Review N°16

In the autumn of 2024, the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) will publish the sixteenth edition of the Flanders Architectural Review. This book maps out the most high-profile architecture from Flanders and Brussels every two years. For each edition, the VAi puts together a new editorial board. The Call for Projects kicks off an intensive editorial process aimed at putting together the contents of the Flanders Architectural Review.

You have until 11.08.2023 to submit your project(s).

Call for Projects: Flanders Architectural Review N°16
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Architectuurboek Vlaanderen (Beeld: Vlaams Architectuurinstituut)

Call for Projects

The editorial board of the Flanders Architectural Review N°16 aims to chart the richness and diversity of contemporary architectural culture in Flanders and Brussels. Aside from built projects, it opens up to other spatial practices such as temporary installations, research projects and participative processes. We see the Review as an opportunity to pause and reflect on the issues that occupy and influence the field of architecture.

How does your project critically deal with social and environmental crises, navigating between regulations, ecological thinking, building conventions and economic constraints?

How does it question the typical roles or relations between clients, designers, builders, material suppliers, neighbours and non-human stakeholders?

We invite architects, clients, urban planners, landscape architects, artists, researchers, institutions and local communities to submit projects. We will work on the basis of submitted projects to study the spatial challenges and surprising answers of contemporary architecture.

We look forward to receiving your submissions in all their radicality, beauty, generosity and care.

Use the link below to submit your project(s) (by 11.08.2023).

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Architectuurboek Vlaanderen N°15. Allianties met de realiteit

Flanders Architectural Review

The Flanders Architectural Review has been published continuously every two years since 1994. The series has grown into a reliable touchstone for architecture from Flanders and Brussels. Within a by now highly developed architectural field, the book looks at recent production through the prism of social, political and spatial changes. The book always starts out from the conviction that high-quality architecture arises from a well-considered relation to its context. This may be the urbanistic, programmatic or socio-economic context of a concrete design issue. But also the broader context of societal challenges with a spatial component, such as climate change, social inequality, mobility, densification, ageing, etc. The Flanders Architectural Review wants to use good architecture to chart the social position of designers and the architectural discipline.

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Redactieraad Architectuurboek Vlaanderen N°16 © Dries Luyten

Editorial team

A new editorial team is composed for each edition. The editors consider the submissions, compile the book and contribute as authors.

The editorial board of Flanders Architectural Review N°16 (2024) consists of: Sofie De Caigny, Hülya Ertas, Klaske Havik, Petrus Kemme, Saar Meganck, Carlo Menon, Els Nulens and Evelien Pieters.

Conditions

The submitted project(s) must meet the following conditions:

  • Projects in Flanders or Brussels are eligible, as well as international projects by architects from Flanders or Brussels.
  • Besides completed buildings, renovations and conversions, artistic works, non-executed projects, research projects, scenographies, etc. are also eligible as long as they are relevant within the contemporary architecture of Flanders and Brussels.
  • Projects completed* (or published, executed, etc.) from December 2021 until November 2023 are eligible.
    *The editorial board will visit a selection of projects (longlist) in the autumn of 2023 and should be able to form a clear picture of the project during this period.

Materials

Each submission consists of a completed project sheet on the VAi website and contains:

  • All necessary details about the project and the parties involved.
  • A descriptive text of max. 2.000 characters (incl. spaces) about the project.
  • An argumentative text of max. 2.000 charasters (incl. spaces) in which you draw the editorial board’s attention to the exceptional qualities of the project.
  • A selection of max. 5 representative (photographic) pictures.** Each picture is numbered and provided with the names of both the architect and photographer. (.png or .jpg, max. 16 MB per file).
    **The photos are for editorial purposes only at this stage. Consequently, they do not have to be professional photos. If a project is selected for publication, the VAi will request a larger set of high-resolution images at a later stage.
  • A selection of max. 5 graphic documents. Each document is numbered and provided with the name of the architect, a scale bar and a north arrow (if applicable). (.pdf, max 16 MB per file)


Deadline

Submissions must be uploaded to the VAi website by Friday 11.08.2023 at 23:59 at the latest. We do not request paper submissions.

To submit a project, you must have a VAi account or create one. Create an account here.

For additional information, please contact Petrus Kemme (project coordinator Flanders Architectural Review) by email at petrus.kemme@vai.be or by phone on +32 3 242 89 71.

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Practical

Note: The Flanders Architecture Institute makes a buildings database available on its website. This is an online digital archive on contemporary architecture in Flanders and Brussels. The buildings database consists of a public and a non-public part. When you submit data, you agree that these data are stored in the non-public part of the buildings database with the possibility that, in the future, the VAi may make these data available internationally free of charge via the public part of the buildings database. Contact details are never disclosed through the public part of the buildings database. For as long as the copyrights on the data are valid, they will of course remain your property. However, you authorize the VAi to share these data with the public free of charge. You vouch for the contents you provide and guarantee that you are authorized to upload the data to the non-public part of the buildings database. In other words, you license the rights that you own and control. You have the right to have these data changed or deleted at any time.