Frame

Following the recent completion of its project Frame, Baukunst announces the release of the eponymous book.

Result of an international competition for a “house of media” in Brussels, the project is grounded in a set of fundamental architectural elements—platforms, screen, and service cores—which are deliberately broken down and recomposed in response to a volatile program and a heterogeneous urban environment. 

The publication retraces the project’s construction chronologically, from 2022 to 2025, under the direction of Baukunst. It features a selection of photographs by Romain Cavallin, accompanied by a series of construction drawings produced throughout the course of the work. Each chapter focuses on a specific constructive layer, highlighting the project’s adaptable nature.

A conversation between Adrien Verschuere, founder of Baukunst and professor at Stuttgart University, and Nikolaus Hirsch, artistic director of CIVA Brussels and co-founder of e-flux Architecture, contextualizes the project’s central issues in relation to other ongoing work at the office. Hirsch questions: “Is a house a medium? What is its status, besides the fact that it is a building? Baukunst and their project Frame push the boundary of what you could define as architecture, up to a point where you dissolve architecture itself.”

Baukunst is a Brussels-based architecture office founded in 2010. Combining art and technology, and dialoguing with various forms of knowledge, Baukunst is committed to exploring architecture as a medium with which both to think about building (Bau) and build ways of thinking (Kunst).