Robbrecht en Daem architecten

Our new book ‘Bartók in Space and Time’ is out now!

Our relationship to the architectural modernity of the last 150 years grows increasingly attenuated. How much has changed in just a few decades! Buildings once touted for their absolute newness survive in our sprawling, chaotic cities like ageing grandparents, posing irksome problems: how to maintain them? how to afford them? can they accommodate contemporary needs? can we contrive new uses to justify their existence?... Read more

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

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