Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City
Opening: 18/10/2024, 7 PM
The exhibition 'Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City' traces Belgium's journey to becoming an internationally renowned hotspot for contemporary architecture and urban planning. The show sheds light on the framework conditions that have given rise to a high-quality building culture in Brussels and encouraged a new generation of architects to participate in its urban development.
The Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (BMA), which was founded in 2009, has made a significant contribution to this, despite being an institution with a purely advisory function. Through it, the city architect and his team have developed a range of tools aimed at supporting clients throughout the entire project process, from its definition to its realization.
Competitions are the BMA's most important instrument: they enable a transparent opening of the markets for architecture, urban planning or public space and contribute to the quality of the projects and thus ultimately the city. The non-anonymized and internationally tendered 'calls' are conceived as a hybrid between open and invited competitions – a format to be considered more frequently in Switzerland?
Curators: Roxane Le Grelle, Andreas Kofler (S AM)
An exhibition of S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in cooperation with the Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (BMA) and with support of Brussels Capital Region.
With projects from: DDS+, &bogdan, Baukunst, Carton123, agmen, V+, MSA, ATAMA, 51N4E, l‘AUC, Jaspers-Eyers, OUEST, Rotor, evr-architecten, BC architects & studies, Callebaut Architecten, AgwA, POLO, Czvek Rigby, XDGA – Xaveer De Geyter Architects, Dierendonckblancke Architecten, Kollektif landscape, Fallow, Ecorce, VVV, StudioPaolaViganò, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, noAarchitecten, EM2N, Sergison Bates architects, CENTRAL, Sophie Dars, Pierre Leguillon, Chancel, Frick Cloupet, Gangloff, Loizidis, Elmēs, Générale, Sarah & Charles, Vormen
Image 8: Filip DujardinImage
Image 9: Team Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (BMA), photo: Marco Ranieri-Reporters
Image 10: Kanal NOA EM2N SBA, © Atelier Kanal
Image 11: Karreveld AgwA, photo: Séverin Malaud
Image 12: Tondo, OFFICE Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, photo: Bas Princen
Exhibition flyer: here
The exhibition 'Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City' is supported by:
Exhibition Partner:
Bouwmeester Maître Architecte BMA
Région de Bruxelles - Capitale
Exhibition Supporters:
Wallonie-Bruxelles Internationale (WBI)
Hans und René Müller-Meylan Stiftung
Exhibition Program Partners:
Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt
Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architektenverein sia, Sektion Basel
Bund Schweizer Architektinnen und Architekten, BSA Basel
DOMUSHAUS EG
Exhibition Media Partners:
archithese
hub.brussels
S AM Supporters:
Kanton Basel-Stadt
Christoph Merian Stiftung
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK
Beisheim Stiftung
S AM Sponsor:
ComputerWorks AG
S AM Partners:
Levante
Karl Bubenhofer AG
Gremper AG
