Lecture by De Vylder Vinck Taillieu at Barcelona

“Foros Esarq 2015: A Matter of Things” comes to a close this year with the lecture “About” by the architects from the Belgian studio De Vylder Vinck Taillieu. The architects from De Vylder Vinck Taillieu will share their unique vision of the architect's social responsibility, a perspective that has placed them among the leaders in Belgian architecture.

De Vylder Vinck Taillieu lecture. Image cortesy of Esarq-UIC.

Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu created De Vylder Vinck Taillieu studio (dvvt) in 2009 in Ghent, Belgium, and now lead a new generation of architects who are changing architecture in Belgium, which is currently one of the most interesting countries in terms of architecture. The members of dvvt will use examples of their work to explain the importance of the architect’s critical approach to social responsibility, as well as how this vision can become a tool to get more out of each project. For dvvt, it is important to approach the future by focusing on the metier (architect's craft).

The members of De Vylder Vinck Taillieu work at all scales with the same intensity and enthusiasm: drawing and understanding the process, design and production, from small to big, from table to campus, from family to public client; from cultural commission to investment assignment. With this philosophy, they created the company JIJ'S in 2011 to produce objects and furniture.

Their work has awarded with the Belgian Building Award several times. They were nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize for their projects Les Ballets C de la B & Lod and Rot-Ellen-Berg and Twiggy. In 2015, they were shortlisted again for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. dvvt's work has been on exhibition at locations such as the Architecture Biennale in Venice, the Design Biennial in Istanbul and New York's New Museum. This year, an exhibition of their work will be held in Brussels and a book on their work will soon be published by the renowned Spanish magazine El Croquis. The architects have taught classes and given lectures at international architecture schools such as the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.

When.- Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at 6 p.m.
Venue.- ESARQ School of Architecture of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Main Lecture Hall – C/ Immaculada, 22, Barcelona. Spain.

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Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck, Jo Taillieu. Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu

"Since spring 2019 Jo Taillieu, Inge Vinck and Jan De Vylder go their own way with jo taillieu architecten and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck. architecten de vylder vinck taillieu stays the joint and active platform for a part of the ongoing projects and future perspectives. After ten successful years, the time has come for new challenges, new projects and new perspectives for the future."

Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu have built a solid work ranging from reform of housing and family houses to public and institutional buildings. The studio formed by Jan De Vylder (1968), Inge Vinck (1973) and Jo Taillieu (1971) belongs to the new generation of Belgian architects who has done a generational change in Belgian architecture, becoming one of the most interesting national architectures the current scene.

They became internationally known from various reforms carried out almost entirely in the Flemish city of Ghent: Verzameld Werk gallery, the Twiggy store, or houses 43, Rot-Ellen-Berg and Rampelken. His work cleverly combines respect for preexistences with a lyrical way of understanding architecture as DIY, as a construction inside buildings in a kind of game of Russian dolls. In his projects there are strange games of transparency, reflection (by using reflective materials), irony (with the use of local materials and techniques), optical illusions of duplicating and copying existing buildings ... and all this results in an extremely personal architecture.

Jo Taillieu. jo taillieu architecten

jo taillieu architecten. Architecture firm established by Jo Taillieu (1971). He is professor at EPFL (CH), director and manager of his own office, Jo Taillieu plays many parts yet he is first and foremost an architect. After working with different international architecture firms, Jo Taillieu founded his eponymous office in 2004, which he has been leading since. The practice evolved in 2009 to a collaboration with Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck, with whom he lead the office architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (advvt) for a decade. In 2018 advvt won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant at the 16th Biennale of Venice and was one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.

Next to the joint projects at architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, in 2019 the focus shifted back to its initial commitment, jo taillieu architecten (jta).

Knowledge of the practice, from conception to execution, is one of the strengths of the office. The genuine effort to execute a design and its realisation remains the fundamental concern. In this respect, jo taillieu architecten always strive to the ‘logic of construction’.

2004 – … jo taillieu architecten
2010 – 2019 architecten de vylder vinck taillieu
2008 – 2009 partner at Crepain Binst Architecture
2007 – 2008 project collaborator at Project²
2001 – 2007 project manager at Stéphane Beel - Xaveer De Geyter architecten
1997 – 2001 project manager at Stéphane Beel architecten
1995 – 1996 collaborator at Maxwan architecten (NL)

Published on: May 4, 2015

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