Landscape architects Studio Basta take us in tow through the West Flemish landscape in search of natural, unforced changes in the landscape.
Do we restore the original state or an historically important intermediate phase or do we preserve a building as it is today? A question that concerns many architects. How do we deal with memories in architecture?
A stage for young talent within the Festival of Architecture. Nine young agencies show their vision and ideas to a wide audience of architects in a dazzling way. The DOK location will close its doors the following week. A unique last chance.
Germany celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus in 2019. Founded in 1919 in Weimar, moved to Dessau in 1925 and closed under pressure from Nazism in 1933 in Berlin, this progressive art school existed for only fourteen years. The legendary Bauhaus is still a source of inspiration worldwide.
Around the Kortrijk Creativity Week we zoom in on Kortrijk’s talent. The stage is given to architect Lieven Dejaeghere and landscape architect Denis Dujardin.
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Take this opportunity to get to know Japanese architecture, art and culture in a backpack-wise manner with other architecture enthusiasts. This original, chronological route starts in the ancient city of Kyoto, takes you along the artificial islands on the way to the metropolis of Tokyo.
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This architectural journey immerses you in the history and the legacy of the Bauhaus. This training for visual artists, craftsmen and architects originated in Weimar in 1919, then moved to Dessau and was based in Berlin until 1932.
For the seventh time Archipel is organizing a workshop with children, dads and mums on the occasion of the Children’s Art Day. On that day, families with children up to 12 years old can get to know art throughout Flanders and Brussels. With us also the art of architecture.
The Japanese architect Go Hasegawa is constantly investigating new possibilities and relationships between different domains and making new connections. Crucial in this is the feeling of openness that Hasegawa displays.
Filip Dujardin plays with the boundaries between photography, architectural photography, architecture and architectural fiction. He describes it himself as “a multimedia exploration of the essence of architecture,” replacing the pixel with brick.
This classic film from the eighties immerses us in beautiful Rome and the unfinished oeuvre of French architect Etienne-Louis Boullée.
An entertaining drama about a midlife crisis and one’s own mortality.
A palimpsest is a recycled piece of parchment that serves for handwriting. The top layer of this parchment was scraped off so that the parchment could be described again. This was done because parchment was precious and no value was added to the original text. One would think that many old writings have been lost by the palimps, but the opposite is true. Often the original text remained partially visible and under ultraviolet light the underlying text is often easy to decipher. It is thanks to the preciousness of the parchment and to these palimpsestes that many ancient writings have been preserved: a spirit of the original disappears behind the new writing and leaves traces of what once was. Palimpsest is today used metaphorically to indicate layers of the past.
We can not ignore it; wherever we look, we always find elements that refer to the past. The traces left by the transformative process of time and history are omnipresent. Whether it’s about a landscape, an old medieval city, a geological transformation, a building that lets its story read over time … traces can be found everywhere. As an architect or urban planner, we rewrite and permanently rebuild our environment. We work with landscapes, cities, buildings, objects and their mutual relationships. We work with what is already, with what exists. We write about it, we interweave our own story with the existing story. A new story is created. History is a continuity and nothing remains the same. The brochure that the VAi published in response to the changed relationship between architecture and heritage carries the beautiful name ‘Unfinished Past’. We contribute to the past and continue to shape it permanently. Unfinished. An unfinished process. An unfinished past.
During the year 2019 we will pay attention to various interpretations of palimpsest in architecture.
Hera Van Sande