Publications

Publications
Languages: EN, FR, NL
Pages: 148 color, 85 b/w illustrations
Format: 22 x 29 cm

Contributions from Delphine Dulong, Dietmar Eberle, Christian Gilot, Gérald Ledent, Sophia Psarra et Cécile Vandernoot


Under the supervision of
Gérald Ledent, Cécile Vandernoot

Publisher
Park Books

Institutions and the City

The Role of Architecture

Institutions such as the state, church, army, judiciary, bank, university - or even marriage - organize our social relations. As inherently social structures, they regulate societies according to various practices, rites, and rules of conduct, and guide our actions by delimiting what is possible and thinkable. An institution’s individual scope depends on society’s understanding of it. They are [...]
Publications
Languages: Español, English
Pages: 134
Format: 23 x 28 cm, Soft cover


Under the supervision of
Cátedra Blanca Valencia (Universitat Politènica de València)

Publisher
TC Cuadernos

En Blanco 36 - AgwA

Issue 36 of En Blanco magazine focuses on Belgian architecture firm AgwA, highlighting their innovative approach and passion for construction. The issue explores essential aspects of AgwA's work, such as its emphasis on construction, its appreciation of imperfection, its use of reuse, and its focus on structure and collage.AgwA is characterized by its focus on construction as a dynamic and [...]
Publications
Language : EN
Pages : 180 colour
Format : 24 x 32 cm, 750 g


Under the supervision of
Sophie Dars, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele

Publisher
Accattone

Accattone #8

Accattone #8 addresses matters of construction in relation to time, use, change and technical knowledge against the backdrop of the ‘negative commons’ inherited from the productivist society of the past century – ‘zombie’ habits, desires, products and processes that our contemporary condition can no longer sustain, yet cannot help but reproduce.With Clément [...]
Publications


Under the supervision of
Sébastien Charlier (GAR Archives d'Architecture) et Thomas Moor (Cellule architecture)

Publisher
Cellule.archi

Architecture Guide Louvain-La-Neuve & Walloon Brabant

The seventh and final volume in the collection, the Guide d'architecture moderne et contemporaine Louvain-La-Neuve & Brabant wallon (Architecture Guide Louvain-La-Neuve & Walloon Brabant), was published on 30 May 2024. The 400-page volume includes341 project descriptions, identified and located on maps in25 towns and cities,written byover50 authors and illustrated with [...]
Publications
Languages: EN
Pages: 288
Format: 24 x 17,3 cm, softcover


Publisher
Harold Fallon (KU Leuven), Benoît Vandenbulcke (ULiège) et Benoît Burquel (ULB)

AHA In Practice: A Travelogue by Leeke Reinders

The book dives in the design and construction processes of three projects by AHA  and their afterlife.
Main essay by Leeke Reinders, texts by Martina Barcelloni Corte and Karel Wuytack, Laura Muyldermans and Bart Decroos, Carlo Menon, Benoît Burquel, Harold Fallon and Benoît Vandenbulcke.
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Publications
Language: EN
Pages: 80
Format: 23 x 30 cm


Under the supervision of
Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Urtzi Grau et Janelle Woo

Publisher
Perimeter Edition

Analogue Images

Rory Gardiner and Maxime Delvaux

SPECIAL EDITION
Perimeter Editions and the artists are producing a special edition of 50 copies, which include two signed and editioned archival inkjet prints (both approx. 21 x 27 cm, shown in the last two images.First: Rory Gardiner,Untitled, 2018
E2A, taz Neubau, BerlinSecond: Maxime Delvaux,Untitled, 2021
ArtefactoryLab and Baukunst, De Panne***What is the role of contemporary
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Publications
Language: FR
Pages: 288, hardcover
Format: 16.5 x 33


Under the supervision of
Pierre Hebbelinck

Publisher
Fourre-tout

Une sobriété Créative — Louis Bosny, architecte. 1924 – 1983

Louis Bosny was an architect committed to social construction: social housing, hospitals and basic schools. Architect Jean Michel Degraeve has immersed himself in his life and gained access to archives that have enabled him to trace the history of an era, the singularity of a discreet man and his conceptual thinking translated into sober but creative architecture. The book is accompanied by two [...]
Publications
Languages: FR - EN
Pages: 456
Format: 21.6 x 29


Publisher
Accattone

SIMPLE ARCHITECTURE:

VILLA BAIZEAU IN CARTHAGE BY LE CORBUSIER AND JEANNERET

Roberto Gargiani, éd.
2024

The social, economic, constructional, environmental and climatic issues that, at the start of the twenty-first century, have called into question the foundations of the architectural project make up the theoretical background to the book devoted to the villa that Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret built in Carthage for Lucien Baizeau, Blanche
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Publications
Language: FR
Pages: 232
Format: 17 x 24 cm


Under the supervision of
Caroline Mierop Jean-Pierre Hoa

Publisher
Prisme Editions

SIMONE GUILLISSEN-HOA, ARCHITECTE 1916 1996

This is the first monograph devoted to Simone Guillissen-Hoa.
Caroline Mieropy recounts the extraordinary life of this Eurasian woman, activist, resistance fighter, deportee, single mother and self-employed entrepreneur.
In the book, Caroline Mierop recounts the extraordinary personal and professional life of Simone Guillissen-Hoa: her friends and her loves, her doubts and her advances, her
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Publications
Pages: 192
Format: 23 x 28,5 cm


Publisher
Fonds Mercator

The Academia Belgica in Rome

This book is the first publication on the building of the Academia Belgica in Rome, a residence for Belgian researchers and artists and a centre for scientific and cultural activities. Constructed between 1937 and 1939 by the Italian Gino Cipriani and the Belgian Jean Hendrickx-Van den Bosch, in a style both modernist and Art Deco, the building has maintained not only its original exterior but [...]
Publications
Pages: 400
Format: 11,5 x 18,5


Under the supervision of
Sophie Dars, Thierry Decuypere, Paul Mouchet

Publisher
Sophie Dars, Félix Antoine Meilleur Roy

The Solar Club

The Solar Club (or what the sun does to architecture) is an iconographic survey conducted by teachers and students of the CUMA studio at La Cambre Horta during 2023.
Publications
Languages : EN
Pages : 208
Format : 24 x 30 cm, soft cover


Under the supervision of
Maxime Delvaux

Publisher
Accattone

CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD, DILMUN BURIAL MOUNDS,

JOŽE PLEČNIK, R?O TINTO, VICTOR HORTA

The story of this book was built over time, through the many exchanges that took place between a photographer, the editors, graphic designers and authors.

Maxime Delvaux is best known for his commissioned photographs of contemporary buildings by architects such as Christian Kerez, Herzog & de Meuron, Bruther, Muoto, Baukunst and 51N4E. As a photographer, he also
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Publications
Languages : FR, EN
Pages : 64
Format : 29,7 x 42 cm, black and white, unstapled


Publisher
Sophie Dars, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele

ÉCOLES TROUBLES

Penser, e?diter, spatialiser la controverse

Texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatialized by Accattone together with the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles. A project by Accattone on the initiative of ‘Construire les mondes des coexistences’ (Djamel Klouche, Gaëtan Brunet, Raphaëlle Hondelatte, Jean-Patrice Calori, Magali Paris / ÉNSA Versailles)Contributors: Pierre [...]
Publications
Languages : FR, EN
Pages : 320
Format : 105 x 180 mm


Under the supervision of
Bento & Vinciane Despret

Publisher
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Cellule architecture

IN vivo - Living in Mycelium

With Living in Mycelium, Vinciane Despret, Christine Aventin and Juliette Salme launch us into a future in which man has finally reconnected with living materials.
The historic starting point for this new era, which the artists refer to as ‘mycélocène’, is ‘In Vivo’, the proposal by the architects from Bento (Florian Mahieu, Corentin Dalon and Charles Palliez) and their
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Publications
Language : FR, EN
Pages : 224
Format : 200 x 260 mm

Illustration : Aurélie William Levaux


Under the supervision of
Audrey Contesse

Publisher
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Cellule architecture

Wallonia-Brussels Architecture Inventories # 4 2020-2023

The spectre of climate change and its social, economic and ecological implications is haunting the Planet. The energy issue, the drought, the floods and other climatic disasters confront us with the challenges of governance and more specifically, with the lack of political interest in architecture and land planning. In order to try to change the course of this situation, any spatial [...]
Publications
Language: EN
Pages: 256
Format: paperback, stapled

Publishers: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (Cologne) A+ Architecture in Belgium Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts


Under the supervision of
Lisa De Visscher, Lara Molino, Iwan Strauven

AGWA: Twenty-three Projects 2006-2022

AgwA is a Brussels-based architecture practice founded in 2003. Twenty-three projects are presented through various documents that explore AgwA’s process of thinking and building architecture. Together with two essays and an interview with the architects, this accumulation of drawings, sketches, scale models, plans and photographs illuminates the current condition of Belgian architecture – its [...]
Publications
Language: FR
Pages: 228
Format: 190 x 270 mm

Authors: Jean-Didier Bergilez, Pierre Chabard, Sébastien Charlier, Audrey Contesse, Guy Duplat, Aurélien Jacob, Gery Leloutre, Charlotte Lheureux, Benoît Moritz, Anne Norman, Christophe, Van Gerrewey, Cécile Vandernoot, Jean-Paul Verleyen


Under the supervision of
Audrey Contesse

Publisher
FWB - Cellule architecture / Institut Culturel d'Architecture Wallonie-Bruxelles

What living somewhere means

What living somewhere means is a sensitive narrative that looks back over a three-year journey exploring French-speaking Belgium and meeting its residents. During this exploration and by using culture as a lever, the Cultural Institute of Architecture Wallonia-Brussels asked the following question to all its audiences: “What does living somewhere mean to you?” Although the responses [...]
Publications
Language : EN
Pages : 352

Photographs: Maxime Delvaux
500 illustrations – 200 coloured illustrations

Foreword: Jacques Lucan


Under the supervision of
Gérald Ledent & Alessandro Porotto.

Publisher
Birkhäuser

Brussels Housing.

Atlas of Residential Building Types

Comprehensive monograph on urban housing architecture in BrusselsBrussels housing is extreme diverse as anyone walking around the city will notice. Its traditional urban block consists of terraced houses, usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back. Here, this bourgeois housing type evolved into a particularly varied and inspiring form – including the well-known Art Nouveau [...]
Publications


Publisher
Cellule architecture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Machine Opérationnelle

Edition of the catalog Prix de la Maîtrise d’Ouvrage Publique (Prix MOP).
The MOP Prize is an award initiated in 2011 and coordinated by the Cellule Architecture of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Its objective is to highlight the role of public sponsors in the context of architectural and landscape projects.
For this 2020 edition, the projects honored are: the rural multiservice house
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Publications


Under the supervision of
Aude-Line Dulière, Juliet Haysom et James Westcott

Essay: Digestion

We invite you to discover the essay entitled Digestion written by Aude-Line Dulière, Juliet Haysom and James Westcott as a continuation of the Placeholders project, presented in 2021 at the V&A in London, an exhibition on the theme of the circular economy linked to the reuse of building materials, and more broadly to sustainable development. An opportunity to practice the circular [...]
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