Robbrecht en Daem architecten

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In this extract, which preceded the realisation of The House Where It Always Rains, the artist evokes a ritual carried out by a small community in the Andes, during which it uses the broken wooden fragments of houses to build “the house of the forefathers”, after which the transparent and symbolic construction is set on fire. Muñoz’s erudite description evokes the sculpture that was erected in 1992 on the beach at Barcelona.... Read more

50 years of Robbrecht en Daem architecten

Pleasure in Making (2016) by Valérie Mannaerts is the latest outcome of three decades of collaborations between the architects Robbrecht and Daem and contemporary artists. The artwork was made for Victor, a café in the Brussels arts centre BOZAR (Centre for Fine Arts) that was recently refurbished by the architects and named after Horta, the architect of the renowned Palais des Beaux Arts. Upon the invitation... Read more

The architecture programme of the ‘library’ seems old and dated. It is related to the materiality and the culture of the book, while everyone knows that the new information supports operate electronically. Moreover these new media store and disseminate not only current information and new pictures and texts. The entire old intellectual culture can – in principle – be transferred to new media... Read more

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