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Publications Language: EN, FR Pages: 304 Format: 200 x 260 mm Publisher Paper Menhirs: DWELL
After 25 years of existence, Matador published a limited-edition book on 20 of the studio's projects. Out of print at the time of its premiere, the expanded version of the “DWELL” book was reprinted to mark the 30th anniversary of the MATADOR studio. It includes a number of housing projects that have been completed, are currently under construction or have been produced as part of a [...]

Publications Language: English Pages: 544 Format: 17 x 24 x 3,3 cm Under the supervision of Ivan Blasi & Anna Sala Giralt Publisher Fundació Mies van der Rohe: EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARDS ARCHITECTURE & EMERGING 2024
A comprehensive publication that brings together the 362 works nominated in the Architecture and Emerging Architecture categories. It highlights the role of architecture in creating sustainable cities and communities, while celebrating the diversity of architectural expression as a unifying force that defines a common European culture.
This publication offers an in-depth look through plans, [...]

Publications Pages: 352 Print-run: 1000 copies Publisher Urbagora: Dérivations No. 9
This issue looks at the particular aspects of rural territories and those who live there (both human and non-human) in terms of the political, the sensitive, the cultural and the intimate, in their relationship with the city and the urbanites. We also look at their contacts with the wild and the voices calling for preservation, or at least the preservation of what's left of it. [...]

Publications Languages: EN, FR, NL Pages: 148 color, 85 b/w illustrations Format: 22 x 29 cm Contributions from Delphine Dulong, Dietmar Eberle, Christian Gilot, Gérald Ledent, Sophia Psarra et Cécile Vandernoot Under the supervision of Gérald Ledent, Cécile Vandernoot Publisher Park Books: Institutions and the City
The Role of Architecture
Institutions such as the state, church, army, judiciary, bank, university - or even marriage - organize our social relations. As inherently social structures, they regulate societies according to various practices, rites, and rules of conduct, and guide our actions by delimiting what is possible and thinkable. An institution’s individual scope depends on society’s understanding of it. They are [...]

Publications Languages: Español, English Pages: 134 Format: 23 x 28 cm, Soft cover Under the supervision of Cátedra Blanca Valencia (Universitat Politènica de València) Publisher TC Cuadernos: En Blanco 36 - AgwA
Issue 36 of En Blanco magazine focuses on Belgian architecture firm AgwA, highlighting their innovative approach and passion for construction. The issue explores essential aspects of AgwA's work, such as its emphasis on construction, its appreciation of imperfection, its use of reuse, and its focus on structure and collage.AgwA is characterized by its focus on construction as a dynamic and [...]

Publications Language : EN Pages : 180 colour Format : 24 x 32 cm, 750 g Under the supervision of Sophie Dars, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele Publisher Accattone: Accattone #8
Accattone #8 addresses matters of construction in relation to time, use, change and technical knowledge against the backdrop of the ‘negative commons’ inherited from the productivist society of the past century – ‘zombie’ habits, desires, products and processes that our contemporary condition can no longer sustain, yet cannot help but reproduce.With Clément [...]

Publications Under the supervision of Géraldine Durieux et David Vanderburgh Publisher Cellule.archi: Architecture Guide Louvain-La-Neuve & Walloon Brabant
The seventh and final volume in the collection, the Guide d'architecture moderne et contemporaine Louvain-La-Neuve & Brabant wallon (Architecture Guide Louvain-La-Neuve & Walloon Brabant), was published on 30 May 2024. The 400-page volume includes 341 project descriptions, identified and located on maps in 25 towns and cities,written by over 50 authors and illustrated with [...]

Publications Languages: EN Pages: 288 Format: 24 x 17,3 cm, softcover Publisher Harold Fallon (KU Leuven), Benoît Vandenbulcke (ULiège) et Benoît Burquel (ULB): AHA In Practice: A Travelogue by Leeke Reinders
The book dives in the design and construction processes of three projects by AHA and their afterlife.
Main essay by Leeke Reinders, texts by Martina Barcelloni Corte and Karel Wuytack, Laura Muyldermans and Bart Decroos, Carlo Menon, Benoît Burquel, Harold Fallon and Benoît Vandenbulcke. [...]

Publications Language: EN Pages: 80 Format: 23 x 30 cm Under the supervision of Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Urtzi Grau et Janelle Woo Publisher Perimeter Edition: Analogue Images
Rory Gardiner and Maxime Delvaux
SPECIAL EDITION
Perimeter Editions and the artists are producing a special edition of 50 copies, which include two signed and editioned archival inkjet prints (both approx. 21 x 27 cm, shown in the last two images.First: Rory Gardiner,Untitled, 2018
E2A, taz Neubau, BerlinSecond: Maxime Delvaux,Untitled, 2021
ArtefactoryLab and Baukunst, De Panne***What is the role of contemporary [...]

Publications Language: FR Pages: 288, hardcover Format: 16.5 x 33 Under the supervision of Pierre Hebbelinck Publisher Fourre-tout: Une sobriété Créative — Louis Bosny, architecte. 1924 – 1983
Louis Bosny was an architect committed to social construction: social housing, hospitals and basic schools. Architect Jean Michel Degraeve has immersed himself in his life and gained access to archives that have enabled him to trace the history of an era, the singularity of a discreet man and his conceptual thinking translated into sober but creative architecture. The book is accompanied by two [...]

Publications Languages: FR - EN Pages: 456 Format: 21.6 x 29 Publisher Accattone: SIMPLE ARCHITECTURE:
VILLA BAIZEAU IN CARTHAGE BY LE CORBUSIER AND JEANNERET
Roberto Gargiani, éd.
2024

The social, economic, constructional, environmental and climatic issues that, at the start of the twenty-first century, have called into question the foundations of the architectural project make up the theoretical background to the book devoted to the villa that Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret built in Carthage for Lucien Baizeau, Blanche [...]

Publications Language: FR Pages: 232 Format: 17 x 24 cm Under the supervision of Caroline Mierop Jean-Pierre Hoa Publisher Prisme Editions: SIMONE GUILLISSEN-HOA, ARCHITECTE 1916 1996
This is the first monograph devoted to Simone Guillissen-Hoa.
Caroline Mieropy recounts the extraordinary life of this Eurasian woman, activist, resistance fighter, deportee, single mother and self-employed entrepreneur.
In the book, Caroline Mierop recounts the extraordinary personal and professional life of Simone Guillissen-Hoa: her friends and her loves, her doubts and her advances, her [...]

Publications Pages: 192 Format: 23 x 28,5 cm Publisher Fonds Mercator: The Academia Belgica in Rome
This book is the first publication on the building of the Academia Belgica in Rome, a residence for Belgian researchers and artists and a centre for scientific and cultural activities. Constructed between 1937 and 1939 by the Italian Gino Cipriani and the Belgian Jean Hendrickx-Van den Bosch, in a style both modernist and Art Deco, the building has maintained not only its original exterior but [...]

Publications Pages: 400 Format: 11,5 x 18,5 Under the supervision of Sophie Dars, Thierry Decuypere, Paul Mouchet Publisher Sophie Dars, Félix Antoine Meilleur Roy: The Solar Club
The Solar Club (or what the sun does to architecture) is an iconographic survey conducted by teachers and students of the CUMA studio at La Cambre Horta during 2023.

Publications Languages : EN Pages : 208 Format : 24 x 30 cm, soft cover Under the supervision of Maxime Delvaux Publisher Accattone: CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD, DILMUN BURIAL MOUNDS,
JOŽE PLEČNIK, R?O TINTO, VICTOR HORTA
The story of this book was built over time, through the many exchanges that took place between a photographer, the editors, graphic designers and authors.

Maxime Delvaux is best known for his commissioned photographs of contemporary buildings by architects such as Christian Kerez, Herzog & de Meuron, Bruther, Muoto, Baukunst and 51N4E. As a photographer, he also [...]

Publications Languages : FR, EN Pages : 64 Format : 29,7 x 42 cm, black and white, unstapled Publisher Sophie Dars, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele: ÉCOLES TROUBLES
Penser, e?diter, spatialiser la controverse
Texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatialized by Accattone together with the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles. A project by Accattone on the initiative of ‘Construire les mondes des coexistences’ (Djamel Klouche, Gaëtan Brunet, Raphaëlle Hondelatte, Jean-Patrice Calori, Magali Paris / ÉNSA Versailles)Contributors: Pierre [...]

Publications Languages : FR, EN Pages : 320 Format : 105 x 180 mm Under the supervision of Bento & Vinciane Despret Publisher Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Cellule architecture: IN vivo - Living in Mycelium
With Living in Mycelium, Vinciane Despret, Christine Aventin and Juliette Salme launch us into a future in which man has finally reconnected with living materials.
The historic starting point for this new era, which the artists refer to as ‘mycélocène’, is ‘In Vivo’, the proposal by the architects from Bento (Florian Mahieu, Corentin Dalon and Charles Palliez) and their [...]

Publications Language : FR, EN Pages : 224 Format : 200 x 260 mm Illustration : Aurélie William Levaux Under the supervision of Audrey Contesse Publisher Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Cellule architecture: Wallonia-Brussels Architecture Inventories # 4 2020-2023
The spectre of climate change and its social, economic and ecological implications is haunting the Planet. The energy issue, the drought, the floods and other climatic disasters confront us with the challenges of governance and more specifically, with the lack of political interest in architecture and land planning. In order to try to change the course of this situation, any spatial [...]

Publications Language: EN Pages: 256 Format: paperback, stapled Publishers: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (Cologne) A+ Architecture in Belgium Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts Under the supervision of Lisa De Visscher, Lara Molino, Iwan Strauven: AGWA: Twenty-three Projects 2006-2022
AgwA is a Brussels-based architecture practice founded in 2003. Twenty-three projects are presented through various documents that explore AgwA’s process of thinking and building architecture. Together with two essays and an interview with the architects, this accumulation of drawings, sketches, scale models, plans and photographs illuminates the current condition of Belgian architecture – its [...]

Publications Language: FR Pages: 228 Format: 190 x 270 mm Authors: Jean-Didier Bergilez, Pierre Chabard, Sébastien Charlier, Audrey Contesse, Guy Duplat, Aurélien Jacob, Gery Leloutre, Charlotte Lheureux, Benoît Moritz, Anne Norman, Christophe, Van Gerrewey, Cécile Vandernoot, Jean-Paul Verleyen Under the supervision of Audrey Contesse Publisher FWB - Cellule architecture / Institut Culturel d'Architecture Wallonie-Bruxelles: What living somewhere means
What living somewhere means is a sensitive narrative that looks back over a three-year journey exploring French-speaking Belgium and meeting its residents. During this exploration and by using culture as a lever, the Cultural Institute of Architecture Wallonia-Brussels asked the following question to all its audiences: “What does living somewhere mean to you?” Although the responses [...]

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