architecten de vylder vinck taillieu
Wednesday, 11 March 2015 to Sunday, 5 April 2015
Location: ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL, gta exhibitions
Eröffnung:
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL, gta exhibitions, 5 pm
roundtable with Prof. Florian Beigel (London Metropolitan University), Prof. Adam Caruso (ETH Zurich), Prof. Kersten Geers (EPF Lausanne), moderated by Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder (ETH Zurich)
Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck, and Jo Taillieu are important protagonists of the current innovative Belgian architecture discourse. They playfully break with the conventions of architectural functions, dimensions, typologies, and the use of material.
To emerge from the context of a purely determinist pragmatism, they use imaginative inspirations, images that evoke associations as a means to push the boundaries in architecture. The design and construction is at any time ongoing and must be ready to respond to government regulations or the whims of actors. The architecture by Vylder, Vinck and Taillieu is never completely finished: their incompleteness gives the user the freedom to intervene and stimulates their imaginativeness. These changes provide inputs for new twists, unique interventions in the planning and extra layers in the built.
gta exhibitions invited architecten de vylder vinck taillieu to re-think the exhibition spaces in the campus Hönggerberg. With several interventions they create a proposition that deals with the problem of the specific space. The created interventions not only transform the given space, but exhibit as examples their distinct way of practice. In a newly built cabinet – as a room within the room – they present their notion of the Triptych. In the threefold of original reference – hommage – and built modification they show their important references in architecture and how they serve as a device for their design work.
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Photos: Filip Dujardin
