"A marginal role at the heart of Europe" / Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures

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Posts Publication date 07/02/13 Author(s) Li Mei Tsien – B612associates/ Li An Tsien - ATOL Link www.wbarchitectures.be/fr/actions/Conferences__Creating_Breathing_Spaces__a_Shenzhen/134/: "Breathing Spaces : intensity rather than density"

Belgian architects and urban planners have, for centuries, created a very specific way of perceiving and conceiving space, allowing them to build places and cities that have a soul and in which every stroll takes you to breathing spaces for everybody and for all.

Bruges, Tournai, Anvers, Liege, Brussels, are all cities in which the urban fabric has been woven,over the course of [...]
Posts Publication date 08/10/12 Author(s) Cédric Libert Bibliographic reference (Un)city – (Un)real State of the (un)known, publication of WBA's exhibition at Istanbul Design Biennial Link www.wbarchitectures.be/fr/publications/_Un_City____Un_Real_State_of_the__Un_Known/122/: "Forewords" in (Un)city – (Un)real State of the (un)known
“Architecture is not designing buildings. Architecture is dividing the world between big spaces and small spaces.” Hideyuki Nakayama during a conversation with Cedric Libert, Tokyo 15th august 2012. Order Pronounced by Hideyuki Nakayama as he was explaining one of his projects, the enigmatic sentence could be a starting point for there ading of this [...]
Posts Publication date 28/03/12 Author(s) Audrey Contesse Bibliographic reference "Foreword" in Belgian architecture beyond Belgium, p. 30 Link www.wbarchitectures.be/fr/publications/Belgian_Architecture_Beyond_Belgium/74/: "Is there a Belgian specificity to the export of architecture?"

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"Another question worth asking is that of the Belgian specificity of exporting architecture, and thus the question as to whether it implies the export of a certain practice of architecture, or the figure of the architects themselves? In his introduction to this special issue, the Ghent-based academic Johan Lagae traces the development in this field from the 19th century onwards, and [...]
Posts Publication date 27/09/11 Author(s) Aurore Boraczek Bibliographic reference Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles, Inventaires #0 Inventories 2005-2010, p. 203 Link www.wbarchitectures.be/fr/publications/Inventaires__0/1/: "The quest for new horizons"

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The creation of Wallonia-Brussels Architectures (WBA) can be seen as a public response that officialises, on the one hand, the qualities of architectural practices in the French-speaking Community and, on the other hand, the overlapping desires of our architects, between the quest to obtain recognition for their creative [...]
Posts Publication date 26/09/11 Author(s) Géry Leloutre Bibliographic reference Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles, Inventaires #0 Inventories 2005-2010, p. 77 Link www.wbarchitectures.be/fr/publications/Inventaires__0/1/: "Urban and territorial management"

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Using the landscape as a public space

But whatever the type of process, what is important is the evolution itself: a shift in the focus of interest of programme designers towards the landscape, seen as a space to be used. The creation of an underground car [...]
Posts Publication date 15/04/11 Author(s) Rafaël Magrou Bibliographic reference Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles, Inventaires #0 Inventories 2005-2010, p. 213 Link www.wbarchitectures.be/fr/publications/Inventaires__0/1/: "Architectural ambitions, a new type of architects"

The view across the border.
The architectural panorama of French-speaking Belgium remained a mystery to me until a year ago, when an excursion revealed the talents and dynamics in this field*. Little exported, lacking representativeness through projects abroad [...] and enjoying little coverage in the international press, this production embodies a discrete but real [...]
Posts Publication date 15/04/11 Author(s) Hans Ibelings Bibliographic reference Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles, Inventaires #0 Inventories, 2001-2010, p. 217 Link www.wbarchitectures.be/fr/publications/Inventaires__0/1/: "A marginal role at the heart of Europe"
Seen from the European perspective adopted by the A10 New European Architecture journal, it is safe to say that architecture has become a booming sector in the French-speaking Community Wallonia-Brussels over the past few years. From the very first issues published in the winter of 2004/2005, architects and architectural designs in the French-speaking Community Wallonia-Brussels have consistently [...]

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