How do shared spaces influence the way we live? In autumn 2024, De Singel and the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) present a programme that examines the different facets of cohabitation and living together. In De Singel’s exhibition space, Dogma’s architects examine the potential of ‘the urban villa’ as a cooperative housing model. graft redefines the relationship between Flemish housing culture and landscape planning with their Table Setting. Masterpieces from the VAi collection shed light on the historic KMSKA building and the urban planning ideals that Antwerp’s Zuidwijk shared with other 19th-century European cities. And our family Sundays explore alternative and sustainable forms of living.
In short, a wealth of activities to fill your cultural diary!
INSTALLATION
The young design studio graft presents its work on the forecourt of DE SINGEL in Antwerp in Table Setting #11. Architects Thomas Faes and Marie van Kerckhoven are the team behind graft. In addition to their own firm, they work, respectively, at Marie-José van Hee architecten and Bovenbouw Architectuur. Their fledgling oeuvre testifies to a critical attitude towards Flemish housing culture, with a particular focus on the relationship with the landscape.
30.08.2024-27.10.2024 on the forecourt of DE SINGEL, Antwerp
Opening event on 29.08.2024 in DE SINGEL’s Music Studio, Antwerp
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
With a lecture by Liesbeth Huybrechts on 26 September and a workshop series in October, the VAi and Timelab aim to understand the challenges of participation in contemporary architectural and urban planning projects in Belgium.
(Image: Sofie De Cleene)
26.09.2024 Lecture at Timelab, Ghent
11 & 25.10.2024 / 15.11.2024 / 06.12.2024 workshops at Timelab, Ghent
EXHIBITION
Architecture firm Dogma is known for its research into the evolution of housing in a rapidly changing society. In this exhibition, the architects take the urban villa as a starting point to promote collective living.
04.10.2024-09.02.2025 in DE SINGEL, Antwerpen
Opening event on 03.10.2024 in DE SINGEL’s Blue Hall, Antwerp
FAMILY EVENT
Families take centre stage at the Flanders Architecture Institute on Sunday 6 October! Family Sunday XL includes all the regular ingredients of Family Sunday, but a special activity makes it even more fun. Not only can you visit the exhibitions and Children’s Island (up to 12 years old), but you can also follow a workshop (10 to 14 years old). In the latter, we’ll be immersing you in the themes of the current architecture exhibition.
06.10.2024 in DE SINGEL, Antwerp
SHORT COURSE
Are you an architect, designer, urban planner or construction company with an archive? Would you like to get to grips with it? Are you looking for efficient information management systems? The Flanders Architecture Institute’s Knowledge Centre is organising a three-part course on archive and information management on Tuesday afternoons, 8, 15 and 22 October 2024.
08.10.2024, 15.10.2024 and 22.10.2024 at Z33, Hasselt
MORE INFOLECTURE
DE SINGEL and the Flanders Architecture Institute have invited Lydia Kallipoliti to participate in the Tomorrow Will Be Too Late festival. On 15 October, she will deliver a lecture on her recently published book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia. Kallipoliti describes times when philosophers, architects and designers invented different forms of coexistence with our planet. Their findings are more relevant than ever in the face of today’s climate crisis.
15.10.2024 in DE SINGEL, Antwerp
EXHIBITION
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) celebrated its reopening in 2022 after a lengthy period of restoration and expansion. But how was this 19th-century building created? The seventh edition of the exhibition series Unfolding the Archives sheds light on the original designs for the KMSKA by the then young architects Jean-Jacques Winders and Frans Van Dijk. Unique objects, photos, archival material and several masterpieces take you back to the original 1884 design.
23.10.2024-19.01.2025 in DE SINGEL, Antwerp
Opening event on 22.10.2024 in DE SINGEL’s Music Studio, Antwerp
FAMILY EVENT
We’ll be highlighting a selection of our finest archival drawings for Children’s Art Day. Families are invited to dive into these treasures and create images for an exhibition of fine and whacky designs.
17.11.2024 at DE SINGEL, AntwerpFAMILY EVENT
Once again, families are extra welcome on Sunday 8 December! Just for you, we’re opening the exhibition slightly earlier. Better still: admission is free. And you’ll run into a surprise-filled children’s island in the corridors.
08.12.2024 in DE SINGEL, Antwerp READ MOREOPENING HOURS
DE SINGEL is taking a short summer break from 17.07.2024 to 28.07.2024. The exhibitions and the Kieckens Cabinet will be closed during this period. The offices will remain open.
Our archive centre and library are closed from 15.07.2024 to 28.07.2024. It is advisable to make an appointment to consult the material.
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