Flanders Architectural Review N°15: Xaveer De Geyter Architects, Melopee municipal building, Ghent © Maxime Delvaux

19.05.2023 | 17:30H | INPARADISO, VENICE (IT)

Alliances with the Real at Architecture Biennale in Venice

On 19 May at 5:30pm the Flanders Architecture Institute and the Diplomatic Representation of Flanders in Italy present the latest edition of the Flanders Architectural Review to the audience of the Biennale Architettura 2023 in Venice. Alliances with the Real showcases some of the most striking recent architecture in Flanders and Brussels and the surprising responses to the challenges we face today. An international panel of speakers will address the most important themes in the book.

William Mann
Witherford Watson Mann architects (UK)

Xaveer De Geyter
Xaveer De Geyter Architects (BE)

An Fonteyne
noAarchitecten (BE) / ETH Zurich (CH)

Hülya Ertas
Flanders Architecture Institute (BE)

Apartment buildings in the Antwerp Docklands by Sergison Bates architects, BULK architecten and Bovenbouw Architectuur © Stijn Bollaert

debate at london festival of architecture 2023

Common Tones

01.06.2023 | 20:0h | St. James’s Church, London (UK)

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In June, the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) and the General Representative of Flanders in the UK highlight contemporary architecture from Flanders and Brussels within the London Festival of Architecture (LFA). The event on 1 June is directly related to the most recent edition of the Flanders Architectural Review. During this evening we focus on the kinship between the architecture cultures of Flanders and London. Leading figures from both architecture cultures are invited for a discussion:

Sofie De Caigny (Flanders Architecture Institute)

Ellis Woodman (Architecture Foundation)

Jan Vermeulen (studio jan vermeulen)

Sergison Bates Architects

Alte Pinakothek, Munich © Luis Bartolomé Marcos, Wikimedia

registration is open

As Found: International colloquium on adaptive reuse

early bird discount

From 5 to 7 September 2023 the Flanders Architecture Institute and the Hasselt University organize the international colloquium As Found. It aims to bring together designers, researchers and students to discuss experimental concepts and practices to intervene in the existing built environment and heritage. The registration to the colloquium is now open.

Register before 16 June and receive an early-bird discount.

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Lecture / congress

Bas Smets gives lecture at Architecture Foundation

15.05.2023 | London (UK)

On 15 May Tree Talks presents an inspiring line-up of landscape architects from Brussels, Paris, Zurich and London showing their recent work and comparing policies, practices and economies around trees in cities. One of them is the Brussels based landscape architect Bas Smets.

Office Riga

Exhibition

Four projects of OFFICE on showcase at Art Academy of Latvia

until 02.06.2023 | Riga (LT)

Organised by the Art Academy of Latvia together with Sampling Architects, the exhibition showcases four models of typologically diverse projects by OFFICE.

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Prize / competition

Omgeving wins international design competition Valencia

27.04.2023

The Belgian office OMGEVING has won the international design competition in Valencia for a four-kilometer-long landscape park with three eco-neighborhoods.

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