Belgian Architects in China

Belgian Architects in China | Embassy of Belgium | April 10, 2008
Belgian Architects in China | Embassy of Belgium | April 10, 2008

Lecture in English at the Embassy of Belgium on Thursday, April 10 at 6pm.
Welcome/drink: 6pm | Presentations and Q&A: 6.30pm | Reception:8 pm

Introduction by Bert de Muynck | movingcities.org

Presentations by:
Halewijn Lievens & Armand Eeckels | NU Architectuuratelier
Jan De Vylder | Jan De Vylder Architecten
Wonne Ickx | Productora

House with office Linq, Sint-Denijs-Westrem | NU Architectuuratelier
House with office Linq, Sint-Denijs-Westrem | NU Architectuuratelier
Dansstudio 118, Les Ballets C de la B., Gent | Jan de Vylder Architecten
Dansstudio 118, Les Ballets C de la B., Gent | Jan de Vylder Architecten
Casa Chihuahua | PRODUCTORA
Casa Chihuahua | PRODUCTORA

Description

For the ORDOS100-project FAKE Design, Ai Wei Wei‘s studio in Beijing, has developed the masterplan for the 100 parcels of land in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, for the Client, Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd. and will curate the 100 villas project, while Herzog and de Meuron have selected the 100 architects to participate. The collection of 100 Architects hail from 27 countries around the globe. Amongst these architects there are also several Belgian architects participating. Bert de Muynck, director of movingcities, invited three offices to talk about and present their work in the Belgian Embassy in Beijing. Throughout the past years each office has been developing a body of work that is characterized by a quality and originality in form, plan and detail, with projects ranging from housing till museum design. NU Architectuuratelier is known for its acclaimed project for the Victoria Theaterhuis in Gent, Jan de Vylder designed the cabinet for the renowed post_surreal Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers collection in the SMAK (Gent) and Wonne Ickx is the co-founder of Productora, a Mexico based practice, that designed the exhibition space for the Belgian Artist Francis Alÿs.

Presentations will take up to twenty minutes each.

Location

Embassy of Belgium in Beijing
6, San Li Tun Lu
Beijing 100060
P.R.China
Tel +86 10 6532 1736/6532 1737

RSVP: Due to limited seats, please confirm you presence via mail (meichoy.wong@diplobel.fed.be) or telephone (6532 1736 ext. 318).

Info

Information on this lecture is available in Dutch and French on the website of the Embassy of Belgium

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spatial agency:
Established in 2007 by Bert de Muynck and Mónica Carriço, movingcities is a think tank based in Beijing Shanghai whose work focuses on how the practices of architecture and urbanism affect the city.

Their name is a reaction to the influential 'Shrinking Cities' project, which they critiqued for an over emphasis on just one part of a larger phenomenon. In contrast they see contemporary urbanity as being in constant flux and speak of city-regions that incorporate shrinking and expanding, rural and urban.

Their work takes the form of projects, writings and collaborations as well as interviews. (...)

Their projects take the form of embedded research on the city, usually carried out in collaboration with other architects."

creative cities:
Mov­ing­Cit­ies is an inde­pend­ent research organ­iz­a­tion based in China

archiblog:
MovingCities is a blog investigating the role that architecture and urbanism play in shaping the contemporary city. MovingCities features urban research, critical architectural investigations and publications. MovingCities operates from Beijing Shanghai, China.

snowball architecture:
Bert de Muynck is the other half of MovingCities, a Shanghai based duo of “shrinks in the urban debate” as him and his partner Mónica Carriço like to describe their practice. MovingCities are also the curators of Snowball Shanghai – Event on Finnish Architecture to be organised in Shanghai this March.