RE-PRACTICE RE-VISIT RE-TURN - Back from Japan
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You can only visit the exhibition with prior reservation. The - free-of-charge - visit will take place in one-hour time slots.
You will be in the exhibition space with a maximum of 20 people.
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email which will serve as your admission ticket.
For the time being, you can only register individually. If you would like to visit the exhibition as a group, please send an email to info@vai.be.
You can already take a look at the exhibition with this virtual tour. You’ll find extra text and visual material behind the information points.
In spring 2020, the Flanders Architecture Institute is focusing on the link between Japan and Flanders/Brussels. ‘RE-PRACTICE RE-VISIT RE-TURN’ from architects de vylder vinck taillieu is the first exhibition of a season with the baseline ‘Back from Japan’.
For the renowned Ghent-based architectural firm, their Japanese adventure was an opportunity to place Belgian architecture in a broader perspective: how is architecture perceived in a changed social and spatial context? Which elements are retained, and what adjustments does the specific context demand?
In autumn 2019, architects de vylder vinck taillieu were invited by the Toto Gallery to exhibit their work in Tokyo. The Ghent-based architectural firm took advantage of this invitation to set up research into the similarities and differences in the Japanese and Flemish approach to architecture. In collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, they set up a design-based study. But rather than calling it ‘re-search’, they dubbed it ‘re-practice’. de vylder vinck taillieu’s projects were modelled and reinterpreted in a new context.
‘RE-PRACTICE RE-VISIT RE-TURN’ showcases the design-based research in Tokyo: eleven projects by the architects de vylder vinck taillieu are given a fresh meaning in a Japanese context, as eleven Japanese mirror-images. The same methodology was applied to the global cities of London and Istanbul, with a view to exhibiting these results at deSingel too. While the exhibition was running in Tokyo, the international design studios were working on projects from a variety of designers from Flanders and Brussels, including Juliaan Lampens, Jos Vandriessche, 51N4E, Office Kersten Geerts/ David Van Severen, Bob Van Reeth, Marie-José Van Hee and others. Moreover, in both Tokyo and Istanbul, local reference projects were used. This again led to mirror images in two different contexts. ‘RE-PRACTICE RE-VISIT RE-TURN’ therefore shows a series of ensembles that reinterpret architecture from Flanders and Brussels in three different social and spatial contexts.
When visiting, please be aware of the following:
- face masks are obligatory in all public spaces at deSingel
- always keep a 1.5-metre distance from other visitors
- individual registration prior to visiting the exhibitions is obligatory
- electronic payments only at the book counter
You will be in the exhibition space with a maximum of 20 people.
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email which will serve as your admission ticket.
For the time being, you can only register individually. If you would like to visit the exhibition as a group, please send an email to info@vai.be.
You can already take a look at the exhibition with this virtual tour. You’ll find extra text and visual material behind the information points.
In spring 2020, the Flanders Architecture Institute is focusing on the link between Japan and Flanders/Brussels. ‘RE-PRACTICE RE-VISIT RE-TURN’ from architects de vylder vinck taillieu is the first exhibition of a season with the baseline ‘Back from Japan’.
For the renowned Ghent-based architectural firm, their Japanese adventure was an opportunity to place Belgian architecture in a broader perspective: how is architecture perceived in a changed social and spatial context? Which elements are retained, and what adjustments does the specific context demand?
In autumn 2019, architects de vylder vinck taillieu were invited by the Toto Gallery to exhibit their work in Tokyo. The Ghent-based architectural firm took advantage of this invitation to set up research into the similarities and differences in the Japanese and Flemish approach to architecture. In collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, they set up a design-based study. But rather than calling it ‘re-search’, they dubbed it ‘re-practice’. de vylder vinck taillieu’s projects were modelled and reinterpreted in a new context.
‘RE-PRACTICE RE-VISIT RE-TURN’ showcases the design-based research in Tokyo: eleven projects by the architects de vylder vinck taillieu are given a fresh meaning in a Japanese context, as eleven Japanese mirror-images. The same methodology was applied to the global cities of London and Istanbul, with a view to exhibiting these results at deSingel too. While the exhibition was running in Tokyo, the international design studios were working on projects from a variety of designers from Flanders and Brussels, including Juliaan Lampens, Jos Vandriessche, 51N4E, Office Kersten Geerts/ David Van Severen, Bob Van Reeth, Marie-José Van Hee and others. Moreover, in both Tokyo and Istanbul, local reference projects were used. This again led to mirror images in two different contexts. ‘RE-PRACTICE RE-VISIT RE-TURN’ therefore shows a series of ensembles that reinterpret architecture from Flanders and Brussels in three different social and spatial contexts.
When visiting, please be aware of the following:
- face masks are obligatory in all public spaces at deSingel
- always keep a 1.5-metre distance from other visitors
- individual registration prior to visiting the exhibitions is obligatory
- electronic payments only at the book counter