XX MODELS. YOUNG BELGIAN ARCHITECTURE

Curators

Iwan Strauwen – Marie-Cécile Guyaux

Team

Studio Luc Derycke, graphic design

About/Content

Between 2008 and 2012, BOZAR architecture and A+ Architecture in Belgium has set up a series of micro-exhibitions and conferences dedicated to promoting young Belgian architecture: NICHE.

They have thus highlighted a new generation of Belgian architects by offering 20 offices the opportunity to give a lecture, exhibit a model for one season at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and see their project published in a visitor's guide.

The exhibition XX MODELS. Young Belgian Architecture offers a glimpse of this generation by presenting one of their first major projects, through unique models and sound interviews.

Office and projects

• Vers plus de bien-être (V+), Cinéma Sauvenière in Liège
• Julien De Smedt architects, Mountain & VM dwellings in Co­penhague
• 360 architecten, Vlerick Campus in Louvain
• Dierendonck Blancke architecten, Centre culturel in Avelgem
• Jan De Vylder architecten, Ballets C de la B & Lod in Gand
• NoAarchitecten, Station de haute tension Petrol in Anvers
• AgwA, Métal in Saint-Gilles
• Bulk architecten, Entrepôt in Blankenberge
• Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Kortrijk Xpo in Cour­trai
• Matador, Maison Folie in Mons
• HUB, Art Basics for Children in Schaerbeek
• Urban Platform architects, Retail Hedquarters in Seneffe
• B612 associates, Dolez in Uccle
• URA, KOP in Puurs
• Planners, Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg in Heist-op-den-Berg
• Puls architecten, De Drei Heeren in Anvers
• Geert De Groote Architecten, Eden in Gand
• A229, ITP in Court-Saint-Etienne
• Ledroit Pierret Polet, Cygne-Digues in Ixelles
• NU Architectuuratelier, C-mine expeditie in Genk

Catalogue

This book presents 20 recent projects by 20 young Belgian architectural firms through 20 architectural models.

In an aim to offer young talent a stage, A+ Belgian Architectural Review and BOZAR Architecture invited, every two months from September 2008 anwards, a young architectural firm to take part in the NIche series. Each firm was to present one of their early large-scale projects during a talk, and the relevant model would then be displayed, for the rest of the season, at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. The exhibition XX Models Young Belgian Architecture gathers all 20 models.

Technical information

See below "files section".

Itinerary

• Brussels 26 September to 25 November 2012 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts - BOZAR
• Marseille from May 17 to June 21, 2013 at the Maison de l'Architecture et de la ville - PACA
• Belgian Pavilion in December 2013 at the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism