Robbrecht en Daem Architecten

Lecture Across on Tour

In his contribution to the sixth edition of the Flanders Architectural Yearbook, Ákos Moravánkszy focused on the design of the delivered Concert Hall by Robbrecht en Daem. He points at the main references used by the architects: vernacular examples, the paintings from the Dutch Masters and the Flemish Primitives, Heimatliteratur of the 19th century, their idiosyncratic appropriation of Gothic and Baroque archit... Read more

Looking for new colleagues

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

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