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Playing with Stone: Architect Michel de Klerk Inspired the Amsterdam School
24 June 2024
He realised unusual buildings, designed furniture, interiors and clocks, made countless drawings and produced graphic work. Yet architect Michel de Klerk still fell into oblivion. A beautiful exhibition at Museum Het Schip in Amsterdam rightly honours De Klerk as a central figure of the Amsterdam Sc
Dutch Windows – Nothing to Hide Here
11 December 2023
The Dutch are different. They drink milk at lunchtime. They eat more cheese than anyone else. And they hardly use curtains.
The Dutch Windmill Is a Cross Between Iconic Heritage, National Pride and Polder Kitsch
28 June 2023
One of the first things that come to mind when you think of the Netherlands is windmills. In history, they are often a symbol of freedom, loyalty to the fatherland and pride in the past. The buildings are top tourist attractions to this day. Lutgard Mutsaers, author of a book about the evergreen ‘
To Simply Be: The Architecture of Marie-José Van Hee
3 May 2023
Over a career lasting almost fifty years, the Flemish architect Marie-José Van Hee has developed a personal style at the heart of which is the search for harmony, simplicity and a protective effect. The Antwerp International Arts Centre De Singel in Antwerp is currently holding an exhibition about
Cubes and Pyramids: Peculiar Architecture in the Low Countries
11 August 2022
In this podcast, we get out the drawing board, put on a hard hat and clamber up a scaffold of creative construction, so that we may cast our view on a few of the most striking, unique or just plain weird buildings that can be found in Belgium and the Netherlands. We also explore some of the schools
Dying for Design: ‘Bold Ventures’ by Charlotte Van den Broeck
2 May 2022
In Bold Ventures, her award-winning prose debut, Charlotte Van den Broeck tells the story of tragic architects who committed suicide in or because of the buildings they designed. Van den Broeck boldly searches for a depth rarely encountered nowadays, one necessary for calling yourself an artist.
The American War Years of Art Nouveau Architect Victor Horta
4 February 2022
When Victor Horta was forced to flee during the First World War, his exile became an opportunity to raise funds for poor little Belgium. The famous Belgian architect, who is known for his art nouveau houses, travelled to the United States to give lectures on the German atrocities. During his stay, H
Before the Architect Came the Painter: Henry Van de Velde as a Visual Artist
24 January 2022
As an architect he became famous throughout Western Europe. But what about Henry Van de Velde’s previous career as a painter? From a new and hefty catalogue raisonné emerges the picture of an artist who struggled with social status and innovation in his craft.
Augustin Goovaerts, a Belgian Palace Builder in Colombia
7 July 2020
Churches, schools, hospitals, even slaughterhouses and prisons - Augustin Goovaerts has designed them time and again. Despite this, the Brussels-born architect is hardly known in Belgium. Augustin Goovaerts predominantly acquired his fame in Colombia in-between the world wars. Historian Peter Daerde
How Huib Hoste Fought for a Modernist Rebuilding of the Westhoek
15 April 2020
After the First World War, West Flanders’s Westhoek looked like a moonscape, littered with craters and munition. But rebuilding started almost immediately after the last shots. Flemish architect Huib Hoste played a unique role in this. Under the influence of his Dutch colleagues, he advocated a ne
Robbrecht & Daem: Architectural Prowess Moved by the Muses
20 September 2019
Recently, both the Flemish contemporary dance scene and Flanders’ theatrical productions have attracted international attention, and now it is the region’s architecture’s turn to take centre stage. One of the most distinctive representatives of this Flemish design wave is architectural firm Ro
