A drawing describes reality, so architects draw to understand the world. This exhibition presents the work of the young Antwerp office Eagles of Architecture. In a self-designed scenography, the architects present three projects and a series of drawings. One very special figure looms large in the work of Bart Hollanders, the founder of Eagles of Architecture. Ever since his first encounter with the American neo-avant-garde, he has been chasing the spirit of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
In 2016, the Flanders Architecture Institute showed a Wunderkammer at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, with work by a new generation of architects from Flanders and the Netherlands. What connected these Young Turks, according to the architecture critic Tom Avermaete, was ‘the constant search for cultural anchor points’. Eagles of Architecture look for this frame of reference within the discipline of architecture itself. The drawing of illustrious examples, such as the Palazzo Rucellai by the fifteenth-century humanist Leon Battista Alberti, illustrates the patience from which their projects originate.
Through drawing, the historical context of Alberti’s work or the spirit of Mies van der Rohe can be gradually expanded. All that remains is the question posed by the American architect John Hejduk: ‘Is architecture the result of a geometric exercise or a clever game in which we hold images up to the world?’
Practical
deSingel Antwerp (BE)
open from Wednesday to Sunday from 14.00 until 19.00 and during evening performances until 22.00
closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Public Holidays
free admission
Opening
Tuesday 24 April 2018 at 20.00 in deSingel
free
Programme:
8pm | panel discussion
9pm | visit to the exhibition and drinks
Colophon
Produced by Flanders Architecture Institute and deSingel International Arts Campus
Curated and designed by Eagles of Architecture
Supported by The Flemish Community