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SUMMARY:Gaston Eysselinck in the Footsteps of Le Corbusier
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DESCRIPTION:Marc Dubois\nConférence de Marc Dubois architecte à Ghent et
  chair de Docomomo Belgium\nDans le cadre du cycle de conférences Docomom
 o Switzerland-TSAM\n\nRediffusion en streaming avec connexion au lien ci-d
 essous:\nhttps://epfl.zoom.us/j/92849483535\n\nThe limited œuvre of the G
 hent architect Gaston Eysselinck belongs to the most compelling evidence o
 f an innovative architecture in Belgium. During his studies he comes into
  contact with publications of the European avant-garde\, the Russian archi
 tecture and the work of Le Corbusier. In November 1930\, he takes part in 
 the CIAM Congress in Brussels and he is on the legendary group photo in th
 e presence of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. His own house\, which al
 so includes his office (1930-31) and house Peeters (1932) can be considere
 d as the built manifesto of the «Nieuwe Bouwen». Eysselinck designs fur
 niture for his home\, including different pieces of metal tube furniture. 
 The architectural plan becomes more and more important under the influence
  of the work of Adolf Loos. Eysselinck does rethink the traditional urban 
 terraced house\, always placing the kitchen at the side of the street.\nI
 n 1937\, he receives the Van de Ven prize\, which can be considered as th
 e most influential architectural prize in Belgium. In 1945\, he dedicates 
 all of his energy to the design and the construction of the Post & Telegra
 phy Office building in Ostend (1945-52)\, his extraordinary masterpiece. T
 his building shows his quest for an architecture with explanatory power an
 d an explicit materiality\, a building that repositions the architecture.
  In December 1953\, Eysselinck commits suicide\, tormented by numerous ad
 versities\, both on a private as on a professional level. Eysselinck belie
 ved in the feasibility of a better future. The control of the chaos by cho
 osing a rational order\, is one of the biggest ambitions pursued by the ar
 chitect.\n\nMarc Dubois (1950) obtained a degree as architect at St Luke
 ’s Higher Institute of Architecture in 1974. From 1978 to 2015 he taught
  at St Luke’s and then at the KULeuven Faculty of Architecture / Ghent &
  Brussels. In 1983 he was a co-founder of the S/AM (Stichting Architektuur
 museum) in Ghent. He was commissioned by the Flemish Community to curate f
 or the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1991 and for Barcelona in 1997. Ove
 r the years he has organised several exhibitions and he has written books 
 on the work of Gaston Eysselinck\, Albert Van huffel\, Álvaro Siza\, Phil
 ippe Samyn\, Vincent Van Duysen and Bart Lens. Since 2015 he has been the 
 chairman of DOCOMOMO in Belgium. In 2019 he received the Ultima Prize\, th
 e biennial architecture prize awarded by the Flemish Community.
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