Together with urban planning and architecture, landscape design shapes our everyday surroundings. Through the exhibition ‘Landscapes’, the young engineer-architect and landscape designer Bas Smets illustrates his research for the mental and physical construction of landscapes.
Bas Smets was educated in Leuven and Geneva and gained practical experience with the French landscape architect Michel Desvigne. Bas Smets started his office in 2007 in Brussels and quickly gained an international reputation with designs for landscapes and public space throughout the world. In recent years they have realised projects across a wide range of scales.
‘Landscapes’ unravels the craftsmanship of the landscape designer: associative thinking, the importance of the senses, the formulation of a theory of the landscape, a knowledge of landscape painting, the indispensable contribution made by geologists, botanists and other specialists, down to the expertise of suppliers of living and inert material for construction. An exhibition that can be read in several ways, just like the landscape itself.
Lecture at opening night
Bas Smets will be giving a lecture on Thursday 26 September at 8 p.m. This lecture is for free.
Guided visits
free guided visits on following Sundays: 13/10, 10/11, 8/12 at 2 p.m., reservation obligatory via tickets@desingel.be or +32 (0)3 248 28 28
A guided tour on demand is also possible, maximum 20 people, price 60 euro, booking obligatory through www.antwerpenaverechts.be
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Practical information
Open from Wednesday until Sunday from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m., closed on Monday, Tuesday and during holidays
admission fee: 5 euro
Production: Bureau Bas Smets, Flemish Architecture Institute, deSingel International Arts Campus
Curator: Katrien Vandermarliere
Coproduction: arc en rêve, centre d’architecture Bordeaux (F)
Project sponsors: Arbor Boomkwekerijen, Steenbakkerij Vande Moortel, Eurodal, Aquafontal Fonteinbouw