Book Launch by Christophe Van Gerrewey, ACHT & TPOD

The double book launch of Something Completely Different. Architecture in Belgium, and of matières 18: la fin de l'architecture, takes place on July 11, 2024, in the exhibition space of Archizoom at EPFL.

Introduction by Pier Vittorio Aureli
Lecture by Christophe Van Gerrewey
Round table with Léa-Catherine Szacka, Véronique Patteeuw, Sarah Nichols, Alfredo Thiermann, Pier Vittorio Aureli
Apero


Christophe Van Gerrewey, Something Completely Different. Architecture in Belgium (Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2024)
"The contradiction between Belgium's reputation as 'a country without architecture' and the evident 'success story' of recent Belgian architecture makes the subject of Something Completely Different. Perceptively told, sometimes with irony, Van Gerrewey turns Belgium's troubled relationship with architecture into an allegory for the architecture of our times." Adrian Forty

Christophe Van Gerrewey (ed.), matières 18: la fin de l'architecture (Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024)
"C'est grâce aux proclamations consécutives de sa fin que l'architecture continue. Pour rester en vie, elle doit être déclarée morte à intervalles réguliers. Ce numéro de matières veut examiner comment ce méchanisme a fonctionné et continue de le faire. En d'autres termes, la question posée est la suivante: de nos jours comme dans son vaste passé, quel type de continuité contient le concept d'architecture?"

With contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Geert Bekaert, Roberto Gargiani, Marson Korbi, Eric Lapierre, Pauline Lefebre, Bruno Marchand, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Sébastien Marot, Luca Ortelli, Véronique Patteeuw, Alfredo Thiermann and Laura Trazic.


Christophe Van Gerrewey is a writer and critic. He is editor of architectural journal OASE, of art journal De Witte Raaf, as well as of the anthology OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Reader from Delirious New York to S, M, L, XL. He published with EPFL Press the essay Higher Knowledge: SANAA's Rolex Learning Center at EPFL since 2010, published by EPFL Press in 2021, and the book Choosing Architecture. Criticism, History and Theory since the 19th Century in 2019, which follows the structure of his architecture theory course, taught at EPFL between 2015 and 2024.