Wim Cuyvers (born 19 February 1958) is a contemporary Belgian

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living in Chatillon,

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. Cuyvers is known for blending design projects, with a specific interest in private houses and schools, and study projects, a.o. into the postwar condition of cities like

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and

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and into informal uses at rest places along highways."Wim Cuyvers"
University of Leuven, Retrieved 17 March 2017. Wim Cuyvers quit architectural practice after having a highly successful career, with a solo exhibition at deSingel Art Centre in

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(1995) and winning the prestigious culture award by the Flemish Government (2005)."Culture Award"
ArchiNed, Retrieved 17 March 2017. In 2000 Cuyvers moved to the Jura in France to start a refuge project called Montavoix."Montavoix"
Retrieved 17 March 2017. Although latest works has been often categorized as art, Wim Cuyvers still claims these works to be site-specific meditations on public space and architecture more in general."Rozebeke Cemetery"
Flemish Architecture Institute, Retrieved 17 March 2017.

Biography

Born in

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, Belgium, Wim Cuyvers graduated in architecture at the Ghent Academy (1977–82). He worked in the

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at Preston Phillips and Venturi, Rauch &

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. Later he worked at

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and Hilde Daem Architects in Ghent, Belgium. He started his own architectural office in 1984 in Ghent, Belgium. Cuyvers has been teaching at the

Sint-Lucas School of Architecture KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture (formerly known as the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture) is a Belgian school of architecture established in 1862 with campuses in Brussels and Ghent. History Sint-Lucas School of Architecture was founded in 1862 ...

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, the Academie voor Bouwkunst in

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and the Design Academy Eindhoven. Until 2008 he has been advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in

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Projects

* ''Woning Baete Doubbel'', private house, Gits, 2000. * ''Weeping Building'', crematorium, Sint-Niklaas, competition entry, 2004. * ''Stroom Arts Centre'', centre for visual arts, The Hague, 2005. * ''Intervention at Rozebeke Cemetery'', in the context of the Zwalm & Art Biennial, 2007. * ''

Namahn Namahn is a human-centered design consultancy based in Brussels, Belgium. Considered a pioneer in human-centered design in Belgium, Namahn is primarily active in the fields of interaction design, service design and safety-critical design. Clien ...

'', private house and office,

Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Saint-Josse-ten-Noode () or Sint-Joost-ten-Node (), often simply called Saint-Josse or Sint-Joost, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the Ci ...

, 2009. * ''Montavoix'', refuge, near St-Claude, France, 2000-ongoing.

Bibliography

* ''Wim Cuyvers'', exhibition catalogue with texts by Wim Cuyvers and Bart Lootsma, deSingel, Antwerp, 1995. * ''Beograd The Hague. About the impossibility of planning'', Stroom, Den Haag, 2003. "Beograd The Hague"
Stroom website, Retrieved 17 March 2017. * ''Text on Text'', Stroom, Den Haag, 2005. "Text on text"
Stroom website, Retrieved 17 March 2017. * ''Brakin. Brazzaville-Kinshasa. Visualizing the visible.'' with Agency, Kristien Van den Brande, Tina Clausmeyer, Dirk Pauwels & SMAQ, Lars Müller Verlag, Baden and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. * ''Poor Being Poor'', Initia, Brussel, 2011.
Initia website, Retrieved 17 March 2017. * ''L'Autre'', Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, 2020. Frans Masereel Centrum
"L'Autre"
Frans Masereel Centrum, Retrieved 8 April 2020.

Theater

In 2012 Cuyvers did the scenography for the play ''MEDIUM'' ( Buda Kunstencentrum &

De Werf De Werf was an arts center and jazz record label (W.E.R.F.) in Bruges, Belgium. In 2002, the label released an eleven-CD box set titled ''The Finest of Belgian Jazz'', with music by Greetings from Mercury, Aka Moon, Brussels Jazz Orchestra, and ...

& Vrijstaat O.) written by Tijs Ceulemans, Peter Aers and Leentje Vandenbussche.

Awards

On 8 February 2006 Wim Cuyvers received the prestigious Flemish Culture Prize 2005 (Cultuurprijs Vlaanderen 2005) in the Architecture category."Culture Award"
Flemish Government, Retrieved 17 March 2017.

References

External links

* http://montavoix.blogspot.be/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Cuyvers, Wim Belgian architects Architectural activism 21st-century Belgian architects Architectural theoreticians Urban theorists Living people People from Hasselt 1958 births