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In this publication internationally renowned architecture photographer Maxime Delvaux shows, for the first time, images taken independently from any commission. For this, he pursued a solitary trajectory, visiting buildings and sites which cover a wide historical span and resonate with his personal fascinations. These five photographic series, devoted to a particular building, site or architects are accompanied by different types of text written by authors of various backgrounds. Together they create a new narrative inviting the reader to create alliances between images and texts. Like Maxime Delvaux’s photographic approach, these texts and their articulation with the photographs are specific to each subject, illustrating five ways of showing and telling about places near and far.

In collaboration with Accattone.

Château de Chambord, Dilmun Burial Mounds, Jože Plečnik, Río Tinto, Victor Horta


Ecological culture is becoming increasingly prominent in the design of the city today. It is the pivot that enables us to articulate new ways of looking, proceeding and operating, generating a new set of arts of practice in and for the ecological city.

The transformations that our societies and environments are currently going through are jeopardizing our way of being in the world. As such they challenge our capacity to set out projects or, more concretely, to produce prospective visions and to anchor tangible ambitions in them.

This context encourages us to imagine new ways of acting that enable us to integrate uncertainty. We must go beyond torment – not undergo – and invent actions capable of fitting into the climate regime that is taking shape.

Moving from a system of autonomous objects to one of related objects opens up new perspectives on interactions, forms and processes. Organized around these three chapters, the exhibition shows how ecological culture can colour, inform and renew project culture. This exhibition was originally realised by UR bureau d'architecture et d'urbanisme in collaboration with Archizoom where it was first presented from 28 February to 15 May 2023. It was shown in a reduced version in Brussels in autumn 2023.

With contributions by 51N4E, AGUR-Dunkerque, Atelier Descombes Rampini, Atelier Fanelsa, B+ Arno Brandlhuber, Simon Boudvin, CENTRAL office for architecture and urbanism, Cookies, Wim Cuyvers, Sophie Dars, Antoine Devaux, Francis Jonckeere, Claudy Jongstra, Kosmos architects, l’AUC, LIST, MBL architectes, Comte Meuwly, Louise Morin, Fuminori Nosaku, Office for Political Innovation, Ooze, Plant en Houtgoed, Pedro Prazere, rebuiLT, Christopher Roth, Jo Taillieu architecten, Ten studio, Mio Tsuneyama, V+, Philippe Vander Maren, Richard Venlet

Sympoiesis. Arts of practice
in the ecological city


For residency #001 Paris-based architect Louise Morin will be working on ‘our relationship to (thermal) comfort and the idea of ideal temperature’.
Architecture rarely occupies the public debate except through the prism of thermal comfort. From global warming and ways to keep our buildings cool in summer, to energy issues and our heating needs that have been at the heart of discussions with the war in Ukraine and its consequences on energy resources. Housing insulation is in one case as in the other, presented as the solution to all ills, and “thermal renovation” is financed by the state. The materials that are used to carry out these thermal renovations often come from the petrol industry, and if there are interesting practices around alternatives, Louise Morin wants to question this notion of heating the bodies rather than the spaces.
During five months Louise Morin investigated the relationship Belgium has with the textile industry, the way it changed our interiors and the impact it had on our comfort. In a second stage she worked on the idea of heating the body rather than heating the space. The exhibition on show between 23 February and 19 May 2024 presented the result of this research.
With the precious support of the Flemisch Government, Batilin, Haezebrouck, Lemaitre Demeestere

lucrèce invites artists and architects to discover territories around the globe and to produce artworks in strong connection with the cultural and natural environment of the place. These works then become the relic of an unique moment and place.Come and discover the work of Antoine Devaux and Alexis Gautier, Olivier Bellflamme and Victor Costales, Viriya Chotpanyavisut and Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Ileana Niki Liaskoviti, Sophie Nys and Alexis Tronchet.

Brussels based architects Helen Van de Vloet & Nathan Heindrichs, founders Specs, will be studying Brussels’ fountain network and the accessibility to drinking water in our public spaces.

‘We miss fountains!’ Maps of drinking water fountains indicate their crucial role for the homeless, populations remaining firmly ignored by policymakers and more-so the architect’s private clientèle. As citizens, we feel such public amenities become scarcer, but is that really? Beyond that, how could adjacent elements be hijacked? What role could new fountains play and what is their hybridization potential, as urban hot spots? How can such springs appear in a world of finite ecological resources and what could be their role in the current socio-ecological stalemate? They aim to approach those broad themes with no dead‑set outcome in mind.

Through the exploration of the multi-facetted history and the maybe unknown – or forgotten – potentials of fountains, they aim to address administrative and political players to seek for operative approaches.

The residency will last until end of June, while the exhibition on their research will open end of September in our exhibition space et al.

Aïcha-Louise Wenger, Juliette Simeone & Amor Immeuble

For the third Residency we are delighted to welcome a team of four composed of Brussels-based architects Aïcha-Louise Wenger and Juliette Simeone in collaboration with Côme Rolin and Olivier Thomas from the Parisian practice Amor Immeuble.

In the coming five months they will explore the last couple of centimeters that compose and finish corporate postmodern buildings in Brussels. For the research, that started on September 1st, the team is mapping and identifying the ongoing transformations and demolitions of these corporate sites and facades in the city.

Then, the ambition is to study the characteristics of the found materials, glazed glass and facing stones – considered as potential resources – and to experiment new combinations in order to give spatial and functional thickness to this thin layer of cladding materials.

Therefore, in the coming months, our exhibition space 

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Stefanie Everaert and Theo De Meyer from the Ghent-based collective Stand Van Zaken, will question the predetermination of domestic spaces following the experience they have been living in their greenhouse in the outskirts of Ghent. It will be an opportunity for them to question and reflect on our inhabited environment by looking back at what has been encountered in the greenhouse. Residency #004 is running until the end of June 2025 and an exhibition of their research and production will open in September 2025. Stay tuned !

is an architect-run exhibition space dedicated to the field of architecture established by Architecture Curating Practice in June 2023. 

 is a stage for raising new paradigms, pressing issues and social questions from the architectural discipline through diverse formats such as discussions, exhibitions, performances, workshops or lectures. Therefore, various actors from the architecture scene will be invited to think about, present and exchange on the future of contemporary architecture.

With this specific venue and curated program, Architecture Curating Practice responds to the vibrant Brussels context by being non-institutional, imaginative, resourceful, critical, independent, contemporary, relevant, inclusive and responsive in celebrating the architectural discipline. Twice a year, in spring and autumn, Architecture Curating Practice will draw up a thematic program around the ongoing residency. This will consist of at least one exhibition with public opening and two conversations around the same theme. In between these moments, et al. offers the opportunity to use the space for a short duration to organize an event related to the field of architecture.



 is located in the Marolles neighbourhood in the city centre of Brussels. We are open on request and at specific other moments related to the ongoing exhibitions and events.
