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  Design Center© Tim Van de Velde
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  Caserne© Maxime Delvaux

Description

According to us, architecture is defined by its political commitment, its critical position, its cultural vocation, exceeding its strict programmatic contingency, his worries about the context, ....

Matador is an architecture office based in Brussels and Mons. He argues for an architecture as defined in the introduction.

His energy is deployed in the participation to competitions, public tenders and projects of various scales ranging from private home to collective sets of importance through public buildings to cultural or administrative purpose. It passes through practices such as architecture, interior design, furniture, public space, the museum scenography, set design for the theater.

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Creation

1994

Associates

Marc Mawet
Olivier Bourez

Collaborators

Xavier Lelion
Arthur Lovera
Jonathan Van Saet
Coralie Berthelé

Awards

1994: Europan 3 Competition
1997: Award of Fine Arts in the Province of Hainaut for the office body of work and commitment.
2005: Maison Folie receives the price Architecture of the Province of Hainaut.
2006: La Maison Folie winning Belgian Architecture Awards.
2007: Cub'House receives the price Architecture of the Province of Hainaut.
2008: Renovation of Abattoirs Mons receives the price Architecture of the Province of Hainaut.
2010: Maison Folie receives Architecture Prize in Wallonia.

Publications

Inventaires#0 Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles (2005-2010),

Publications

See http://www.matador.be/fr/publications/

Avenue Van Volxem 264
1190 Bruxelles

Tél : 0032 2 534 30 84
Fax : 0032 2 534 88 58

info@matador.be
www.matador.be