The exhibition 'Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City' in Basel traces Belgium's journey to becoming an internationally renowned hotspot for contemporary architecture and urban planning.
The show sheds light on the framework conditions that have given rise to a high-quality building culture in Brussels and encouraged a new generation of architects to participate in its urban development.
The Brussels Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (BMA), founded in 2009, has made a significant contribution to this, despite being an institution with a purely advisory function.
Competitions are the BMA's most important instrument: they enable a transparent opening of the markets for architecture, urban planning or public space and contribute to the quality of the projects and thus ultimately the city. The non-anonymized and internationally tendered 'calls' are conceived as a hybrid between open and invited competitions.
With projects from:
DDS+, &bogdan, Baukunst, Carton123, agmen, V+, MSA, ATAMA, 51N4E, l‘AUC, Jaspers-Eyers, OUEST, Rotor, evr-architecten, BC architects & studies, Callebaut Architecten, AgwA, POLO, Czvek Rigby, XDGA – Xaveer De Geyter Architects, Dierendonckblancke Architecten, Kollektif landscape, Fallow, Ecorce, VVV, StudioPaolaViganò, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, noAarchitecten, EM2N, Sergison Bates architects, CENTRAL, Sophie Dars, Pierre Leguillon, Chancel, Frick Cloupet, Gangloff, Loizidis, Elmēs, Générale, Sarah & Charles, Vormen
An exhibition of S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in cooperation with the Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (BMA) and with support of Brussels Capital Region.
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