Lionel Devlieger
University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Department Member
This booklet serves as a guide for visitors of the OMA / Progess show, curated and designed by Rotor, at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. The guide was published by the Barbican Art Gallery. The exhibition opened on October 5, 2011 and... more
This booklet serves as a guide for visitors of the OMA / Progess show, curated and designed by Rotor, at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. The guide was published by the Barbican Art Gallery. The exhibition opened on October 5, 2011 and will run till Februari 19, 2012.
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'Ex Limbo' is the publication issued on occasion of the exhibition with the same name at the Fondazione Prada in April 2011. It is conceived as a report of the research done in preparation of the exhibition, the sourcing and... more
'Ex Limbo' is the publication issued on occasion of the exhibition with the same name at the Fondazione Prada in April 2011. It is conceived as a report of the research done in preparation of the exhibition, the sourcing and identification of the remains of Prada-catwalks in warehouses in Milan and Tuscany. The introduction, with a note from Miucca Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, contains an interview of Rotor by Germano Celant, curator of the Fondazione Prada.
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Usus/Usures - How Things Stand is the catalog of Rotor's installation for the 2010 Architecture Biennial in Venice, as Belgium's official representation. This publication emerged from an intensive investigation carried out by Rotor in... more
Usus/Usures - How Things Stand is the catalog of Rotor's installation for the 2010 Architecture Biennial in Venice, as Belgium's official representation.
This publication emerged from an intensive investigation carried out by Rotor in collaboration with a series of artists, architects and a sociologist. It analyses wear as a material phenomenon and as an agent that can influence behaviour. It approaches wear not as a problem in itself, the result of an error of conception that must be avoided at all costs, but as an inevitable process that permits reflection on use and the practice of construction.
This publication emerged from an intensive investigation carried out by Rotor in collaboration with a series of artists, architects and a sociologist. It analyses wear as a material phenomenon and as an agent that can influence behaviour. It approaches wear not as a problem in itself, the result of an error of conception that must be avoided at all costs, but as an inevitable process that permits reflection on use and the practice of construction.
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This concise book gives an overview of 5 years of Rotor designs and research.
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This is the exhbition catalog of 'Deutschland im Herbst', an installation by Rotor for the Ursula Blickle Stiftung un Kraichtal, Germany, featured in the fall of 2008. In this project Rotor concentrated on the specific instances, places,... more
This is the exhbition catalog of 'Deutschland im Herbst', an installation by Rotor for the Ursula Blickle Stiftung un Kraichtal, Germany, featured in the fall of 2008.
In this project Rotor concentrated on the specific instances, places, and circumstances in which waste and by-products are produced. This publication documents a series of waste products resulting from different production processes and companies.
The project was preceded by a long research period involving companies from the Kraichtal region, among others. The catalogue not only focuses on the documentation of each production and material context, but also contains an essay on the historical change of the role of waste in society, as well as an interview between the curators and ourselves.
In this project Rotor concentrated on the specific instances, places, and circumstances in which waste and by-products are produced. This publication documents a series of waste products resulting from different production processes and companies.
The project was preceded by a long research period involving companies from the Kraichtal region, among others. The catalogue not only focuses on the documentation of each production and material context, but also contains an essay on the historical change of the role of waste in society, as well as an interview between the curators and ourselves.
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The decades between 1540 and 1570 have seen the emergence, in Florence, of the idea that painting, sculpture, and architecture share fundamental characteristics because of their common dependency upon draftsmanship, or disegno. This... more
The decades between 1540 and 1570 have seen the emergence, in Florence, of the idea that painting, sculpture, and architecture share fundamental characteristics because of their common dependency upon draftsmanship, or disegno. This conviction would have a considerable impact in the following decades and centuries, because of the influence the first public art school (the Florentine Accademia del Disegno, 1563) exercised upon the whole academic movement. This article examines the positions held by three theorists who stood at the cradle of the “doctrine of disegno” regarding the position of architecture in the triad of the arts: Benedetto Varchi, Cosimo Bartoli, and Vincenzo Borghini. Regarding the problem of architecture, an important theoretical shift can be assessed. The article offers an explanation for this shift by situating the debate in the context of how, by then, the architectural profession was exerciced.
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This tale of words and images which Rotor has put together for “Abitare”, whose starting point is their research into building and demolition waste in Brussels, takes the form of a journey through some insights gained during this and... more
This tale of words and images which Rotor has put together
for “Abitare”, whose starting point is their research into
building and demolition waste in Brussels, takes the form
of a journey through some insights gained during
this and previous projects. This attempt to breach
a multifaceted problem while avoiding easy and clichéd
positions eventually undresses, with some irony, the rampant myth of the green.
for “Abitare”, whose starting point is their research into
building and demolition waste in Brussels, takes the form
of a journey through some insights gained during
this and previous projects. This attempt to breach
a multifaceted problem while avoiding easy and clichéd
positions eventually undresses, with some irony, the rampant myth of the green.
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Relire Papanek, "re-read Papanek" is a re-discovery of Victor Papanek's major work, 'Design for the Real World', first published in 1971. The article shows the relevance and freshness of some of the insights gained by Papanek in terms of... more
Relire Papanek, "re-read Papanek" is a re-discovery of Victor Papanek's major work, 'Design for the Real World', first published in 1971. The article shows the relevance and freshness of some of the insights gained by Papanek in terms of sustainable and socially responsible design 40 years ago.
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Olafur Eliason, Notion Motion. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 348180. Record Type, misc. Author, Lionel Devlieger [801001365434] - Ghent University Lionel.Devlieger@UGent.be. Title,... more
Olafur Eliason, Notion Motion. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Record Details. Record ID, 348180. Record Type, misc. Author, Lionel Devlieger [801001365434] - Ghent University Lionel.Devlieger@UGent.be. Title, Olafur Eliason, Notion Motion. ...
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A critical review of the wave of sustainability claims in the architectural debate between 2006 and 2007. Published in the 'Flanders Architectural Yearbook', the equivalent, for Dutch-speaking Belgium, of the Yearbook Architecture in the... more
A critical review of the wave of sustainability claims in the architectural debate between 2006 and 2007. Published in the 'Flanders Architectural Yearbook', the equivalent, for Dutch-speaking Belgium, of the Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands.