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

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