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A reissue and unique reference of work on Belgian architect Juliaan Lampen 1950-1991 containing previously untranslated texts.

Monnikenheide in Zoersel is a residential care centre for people with mental disabilities. This book examines this special centre from an architectural perspective.

Architect-artist Malgorzata Maria Olchowska investigates how personal and collective memories influence our view of the built environment.

This book brings together a rich selection of much-discussed recent projects that offer a surprising response to today''s demand for housing, changing visions on education, the collective past, open space and new care needs.

Flanders has had a Government Architect since 1999. The Government Architect advises public commissioning authorities with the aim of promoting the quality of architecture and the built environment. One of the methods used for this purpose is the Open Call. In the essays presented in this book, eight authors discuss, from different perspectives, why this influential ''competition'' is not quite an architecture competition while at the same time being much more. Did architectural criticism in the 1990s help to pave the way for the Government Architect position and the Open Call? Does the key to quality lie in smart procedures? What is a ''strong'' public commissioner in a democratic system? What does the Flemish Government Architect do and what has the Open Call achieved over the past 20 years? What do the distinct projects mean in their broader spatial context? Can architects satisfy a collective desire with singular designs? To what extent is the Open Call in line with the broadening of the practice of architecture and the evolving competition culture? Looking back on two decades of public commissions, this book presents current reflections on these issues.

This publication is the official catalogue of the eponymous exhibition Composite Presence curated by Bovenbouw Architectuur.

The Flanders Architectural Review No.14 presents striking architecture from Flanders and Brussels. It assembles a broad range of recently completed architectural projects and situates them in the evolution of the socio-cultural domain in which they arose.

For this publication, editors Peter Swinnen and Anne Judong were given unlimited access to the archives of T.O.P. architecture office.

Architecture office 'Bovenbouw' presents its work in all of its variety and maps the rich world of references with which it designs.