Celebrating Public Architecture

In addition to the exhibitions Coming of Age and Open Call two books were published about architectural competitions and the open call procedure in Flanders and Brussels. On 8 March, Saskia van Stein (director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam) will discuss both books with the editors and publishers. Before the talk you can join a guided visit to the double exhibition. Make sure to register, places are limited.

On 27 November 2021, the Flanders Architecture Institute opened a double exhibition under the title 40 years of competition. The travelling exhibition Open Call. 20 Years of Public Architecture can be seen until April 17 in an expanded version at De Singel in Antwerp. It accompanies the Coming of Age exhibition, which highlights ten iconic architecture competitions from the period 1980-2000.

Accompanying the exhibitions two publications were published. In Celebrating Public Architecture, the Berlin architecture critic Florian Heilmeyer, under the auspices of the publishing house JOVIS and in close collaboration with the Flemish Government Architect, brings a selection of public projects to the attention of an international audience. These projects are the result of the Open Call procedure of the Flemish Government Architect. In addition, Maarten Liefooghe and Maarten Van Den Driessche, the curators of the Open Call exhibition, assembled a collection of essays in More Than a Competition. In this book a number of architectural historians and critics take a close look at the Open Call procedure for designers, focusing on its history and challenges for the future.

As co-publishers of both publications, the Team Vlaams Bouwmeester and the Flanders Architecture Institute invite Saskia van Stein, the director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, to read the books. On Tuesday 8 March she will discuss them with Doris Kleilein (JOVIS Verlag Berlin), Anne Malliet and Erik Wieërs (Team Vlaams Bouwmeester), Sofie De Caigny (Flanders Architecture Institute), Maarten Liefooghe and Maarten Van Den Driessche (UGent). The debate will be preceded by a guided tour of the double exhibition. Admission is free.

Programme book presentation

19:00h Guided tour in double exhibition 40 years of competition

20:00h Saskia Van Stein in in conversation with Doris Kleilein, Sofie De Caigny, Anne Malliet, Maarten Liefooghe, Maarten Van Den Driessche and Erik Wieërs.

Language: English

In addition to the exhibitions Coming of Age and Open Call two books were published about architectural competitions and the open call procedure in Flanders and Brussels. On 8 March, Saskia van Stein (director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam) will discuss both books with the editors and publishers. Before the talk you can join a guided visit to the double exhibition. Make sure to register, places are limited.

On 27 November 2021, the Flanders Architecture Institute opened a double exhibition under the title 40 years of competition. The travelling exhibition Open Call. 20 Years of Public Architecture can be seen until April 17 in an expanded version at De Singel in Antwerp. It accompanies the Coming of Age exhibition, which highlights ten iconic architecture competitions from the period 1980-2000.

Accompanying the exhibitions two publications were published. In Celebrating Public Architecture, the Berlin architecture critic Florian Heilmeyer, under the auspices of the publishing house JOVIS and in close collaboration with the Flemish Government Architect, brings a selection of public projects to the attention of an international audience. These projects are the result of the Open Call procedure of the Flemish Government Architect. In addition, Maarten Liefooghe and Maarten Van Den Driessche, the curators of the Open Call exhibition, assembled a collection of essays in More Than a Competition. In this book a number of architectural historians and critics take a close look at the Open Call procedure for designers, focusing on its history and challenges for the future.

As co-publishers of both publications, the Team Vlaams Bouwmeester and the Flanders Architecture Institute invite Saskia van Stein, the director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, to read the books. On Tuesday 8 March she will discuss them with Doris Kleilein (JOVIS Verlag Berlin), Anne Malliet and Erik Wieërs (Team Vlaams Bouwmeester), Sofie De Caigny (Flanders Architecture Institute), Maarten Liefooghe and Maarten Van Den Driessche (UGent). The debate will be preceded by a guided tour of the double exhibition. Admission is free.

Programme book presentation

19:00h Guided tour in double exhibition 40 years of competition

20:00h Saskia Van Stein in in conversation with Doris Kleilein, Sofie De Caigny, Anne Malliet, Maarten Liefooghe, Maarten Van Den Driessche and Erik Wieërs.

Language: English