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WIDESPREAD

Another scale of architecture In 1973 Gordon Matta Clark found out that the city of New York intended to sell a series of small plots by auction – land left over after the abstract geometry of the...
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RESOURCES

In 1964 Buckminster Fuller was commissioned by the United States Information Agency with the design of the United States pavilion and the corresponding exhibition for the 1967 World Exhibition in M...
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TEAMWORK

The doubling of the king Being Belgium a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy the Belgian king has to sign every law established by the parliament. There is no contribution to the law to ...
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PARALLELS

Translations A horizontal field inside a building – its supposed border is slowly fading from a yellow colour into its surroundings. A space, which is made out of a precious material: hazelnut pow...
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ENSEMBLE

Toni Frissell was one of the first female photographers working for major magazines. Born in 1907, as Antoinette Frissell to a New York upper class family she apprenticed with Cecil Beaton and Edwa...
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WATER

A volume of black granite is placed on the ground. It is about 130 cm long, circa 82 cm wide and some 37 cm high. A cut has taken away some of its mass in the lower part, producing a distinct L sha...
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VOYAGE

Trip 1 In May 1974 Joseph Beuys travelled to America. He undertook the enterprise in order to see nothing else of America than a Coyote and the inside of the Rene Block Gallery in Downtown New Yor...
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MATTER

The story of two sheets of iron According to Richard Serra two sheets of iron are enough to form a piece of art. The longer one stands upright and is positioned with one end perpendicular against ...
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EXPERIMENTS

Architecture is a material practice, it is an applied art, it is the practice of the corporeal and the spatial. To situate architecture in the field of the applied arts means to recognise architect...