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EXHIBITION PHOTOS
Exhibition "A.J. Lode Janssens — A Balloon Home". Curators : Peter Swinnen & Nikolaus Hirsch. Model : CRIT.architects © Photo: Filip DujardinExhibition "A.J. Lode Janssens — A Balloon Home". Curators : Peter Swinnen & Nikolaus Hirsch. Model : CRIT.architects © Photo: Filip DujardinExhibition "A.J. Lode Janssens — A Balloon Home". Curators : Peter Swinnen & Nikolaus Hirsch. © Photo: Filip DujardinExhibition "A.J. Lode Janssens — A Balloon Home". Curators : Peter Swinnen & Nikolaus Hirsch. © Photo: Filip DujardinExhibition "A.J. Lode Janssens — A Balloon Home". Marc Godts, DIAMONSTER, 2021. © Photo: Filip DujardinExhibition "A.J. Lode Janssens — A Balloon Home". Curators : Peter Swinnen & Nikolaus Hirsch. © Photo: Filip DujardinExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Thomas OstExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Sepideh FarvardinExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Thomas OstExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Thomas OstExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Sepideh FarvardinExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Sepideh FarvardinExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Sepideh FarvardinExhibition "Institution Building". Curators: Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert © Photo: Sepideh FarvardinExhibition Superstudio Migrazioni © Kristien DaemExhibition Superstudio Migrazioni © Kristien DaemExhibition Superstudio Migrazioni © Kristien DaemExhibition Superstudio Migrazioni © Kristien DaemExhibition Superstudio Migrazioni © Kristien DaemExhibition Superstudio Migrazioni © Kristien DaemExhibition Superstudio Migrazioni © Kristien DaemThe exhibition is essentially centred on the idea of ‘Creating Worlds’. It attempts to bring together two characters: the architect and the child. © Photo: Filip DujardinOnly the young architect holds the key to the vast imaginary world he is in the pro- cess of creating by shaping the surface of the beach. © Photo: Filip DujardinIn the beginning, the world is an absurd chaos. And we become adventurers, in search of the centre of the labyrinth. © Photo: Filip DujardinIn the course of our wanderings, we col- lect some objects whose brightness suddenly stroke us. When nostalgia for these illuminations grips us, we become stage directors, trying to bring these lost objects back to life. © Photo: Filip DujardinThe fragments we accumulate constitute the bricks of a vast collective language, the meanings of which we share through the abstraction of speech. We then become bricoleurs, capable of always constructing and deconstructing new and complex assemblies. © Photo: Filip DujardinThe empirical experience of the world is not satisfying enough for us. We we tend to objectify to objectify it in order to understand it. © Photo: Filip DujardinThe origin of architecture, the ‘primi- tive hut’, is then no longer to be sought in the childhood of humankind, as rationalist architects thought. It is located deep within each of us, in the playful childhood of our minds. © Photo: Filip DujardinPublic spaces reserved for children to play in, playgrounds are an expression of that right to play. The very first play- grounds emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century already in order to steer children away from the new dangers of the city © Photo: Filip DujardinThe exhibition Designed Landscapes (November 2018 - March 2019, CIVA) offers an unprecedented look at the landscape of the Brussels Region, discovering the unique history of its parks and public gardens. © Photo: Thomas OstThrough numerous original documents, partly unpublished, the exhibition offers an overview of the landscape creations between 1775 and the contemporary period, their authors as well as the historical and political context. © Photo: Thomas OstThe exhibition also seeks to situate Brussels creations in an international cultural framework and to highlight the specific tools of the landscape architect. © Photo: Thomas OstThe garden has long been associated with the history of the city. Brussels, in the 17th and 18th centuries, had a large number of planted areas inside for its pleasure or practical use. © Photo: Thomas OstThe notion of a public garden, however, did not take hold until late in the late 18th century. © Photo: Thomas OstThis new concept will now support the entire development of the city and the region through versions of an impressive typological and aesthetic richness. : parks, squares, gardens, planted boulevards, walks, cemeteries ... © Photo: Thomas Ost© Photo: Thomas Ost© Photo: Thomas Ost© Photo: Thomas Ost© Photo: Thomas Ost© Photo: Thomas Ost