Baukunst documents the exhibition Performance & Performativity from Brussels-based firm Baukunst, collapsing the distinction between built and unbuilt work to foreground design method over finished result across 176 pages of models, photographs, video stills, and installations.
About This Book
Founded by Adrien Verschuere in Brussels in 2008, Baukunst is a practice shaped by two formative experiences: time spent at Herzog & de Meuron and at OMA. This publication documents the firm's exhibition titled Performance & Performativity, and takes a deliberately process-oriented stance — realised buildings and unbuilt projects are presented on equal footing, because what Verschuere is interested in showing is not the outcome but the working method itself. Documented through models, photographs, videos, and installations, the book operates as both exhibition catalogue and architectural argument: that the logic of design thinking matters as much as its material resolution.
Key Features
- 176 pages of exhibition documentation including models, photographs, video stills, and installation views
- Contributors include Jacques Lafitte, Lynn Margulis, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dorion Sagan, and Adrien Verschuere
- Documents the exhibition Performance & Performativity by Belgian architectural firm Baukunst
- Published by Walther Koenig, 2008
What You'll Discover
- How Verschuere's passage through Herzog & de Meuron and OMA shaped a practice that prioritises working method over resolved form
- A deliberate refusal to distinguish between realised buildings and planned projects — both treated as equally valid expressions of design thinking
- The theoretical framing of architectural practice through the lens of performance and performativity, with contributions from writers including Hans Ulrich Obrist
- An exhibition catalogue format that functions as an architectural manifesto, using models, photographs, videos, and installations as primary documents
About the Author
Adrien Verschuere founded Baukunst in Brussels in 2008 after working at both Herzog & de Meuron and OMA. The firm's approach to architectural practice is distinguished by its focus on design and working methods rather than the presentation of completed buildings.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 31.1 x 22.2 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783960986836
- Publisher: Walther Koenig
- Publication Date: 2008
Perfect For: Architects and designers interested in Belgian contemporary practice, process-led design methodologies, and the intersection of architectural theory and exhibition-making.