Christophe Van Gerrewey Libri

4e de couv. : "The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his numerous collaborators have been widely discussed, even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. The work of OMA, including Koolhaas's written oeuvre, is at the root of an important part of the Western discourse on architecture from the past half century. The book compiles about 150 texts - interviews, essays, articles, reviews, letters, introductions, polemics, appraisals, and competition reports - that in many cases have been translated for the first time. As a reader covering the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas from Delirious New York to S, M, L, XL, it provides a fresh and critical view on one of the most complex architectural oeuvres of recent times. At the same time, the book presents an account of the debates on architecture and the city that remain significative today."

How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity. Since the foundation of the country in 1830, architecture in Belgium has been an expression of the key issues of modern Western societies. In Something Completely Different, Christophe Van Gerrewey uses this small European country as a case study to describe, interpret, and criticize more universal spatial problems and behaviors. In seven wide-ranging essays, he looks at the activities of architects from the past two centuries to better understand political evolutions, social gaps, aesthetic considerations, housing and planning, transport and infrastructure, order and chaos, and culture and ecology. The result is a literary text full of surprises and discoveries, showing both the shortcomings and the merits of what architects do. Written as a kind of anti-guidebook, Something Completely Different appropriates certain clichés about Belgium (Baudelaire famously called Belgian monuments “counterfeits of France”), eschews the pragmatism of most guidebooks in favor of meditative, essayistic prose, and finally, cunningly, reveals that all along the subject has not been Belgium at all, but rather the nature of architecture.

Travel with nature and wildlife photographer Wouter Pattyn to explore 12 of the most beautiful nature reserves on the European continent. Along with photographs of stunning landscapes, Amazing Europe is a sourcebook of information for the adventurous traveller.

A unique overview of the projects of Xaveer De Geyter Architects.

Mit wenigen Grundregeln erschaffen die Architekten von OFFICE, Kersten Geers und David Van Severen, Räume, in dem Leben mit all seiner Komplexität stattfinden kann. Die von den Architekten kreierten Modelle, Zeichnungen und Räume werden im Zusammenspiel mit Kunstwerken gezeigt, die in Geist und Ausdrucksweise mit dem Architektenbüro und seinen Vorstellungen in enger Beziehung stehen.

Seznámili se na dovolené u moře. Léta k sobě patřili, nebo si to aspoň mysleli. Pendlovali mezi Gentem, kde žil on, a Antverpami, kde bydlela ona. Pak to skončilo. Uplynul rok a oba jsou stále sami. On sedne a píše jí dlouhý dopis-nedopis. Chce pochopit, co se stalo, vše dovysvětlit, svěřit se a možná i zachránit, co se dá. Je to však jejich společný příběh, co vypráví? Dokáže vykročit z kruhu své pravdy? Dá se vůbec o milostném vztahu dvou lidí sdělit něco platného? Novela belgického spisovatele Christopha Van Gerreweye překvapivě není romantická ani dojemná. Trochu nervózně a trochu komicky skicuje obraz moderního partnerství v blahobytné západní Evropě.