Samuel Beckett’s second published novel, Murphy, opens with the eponymous protagonist having tied himself naked and with seven scarves to his rocking chair, swinging back and forth in the dark of his room. With this ritual Beckett’s well read, intellectual character retreats from everyday reality, relieves his body to set his mind free: ‘for it was not until his body is appeased that he could come alive in his mind’.2... Read more

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