The following text is part of a contribution to the catalogue of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, titled Cities, Architecture and Society, and was written while the architects were working on several vast projects within historic city centres. The article was illustrated by project images of Leopold De Wael Square in Antwerp... 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