Architecten JDVIV is an architecture studio led by Jan De Vylder (1968) and Inge Vinck (1973) with a solid track record of built work ranging from renovations of single-family homes and apartments to public and institutional buildings. They belong to a new generation of architects who have marked a true generational shift in Belgian architecture.
During the period 2009-2019, Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck collaborated on various projects with the architect Jo Taillieu under the name architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (advvt).
They gained international recognition through several renovations carried out almost entirely in the Flemish city of Ghent: the Verzameld Werk gallery, the Twiggy store, and the 43, Rot-Ellen-Berg, and Rampelken houses.
His work wisely combines respect for existing structures with a lyrical understanding of architecture as bricolage, as a construction within constructions, like a set of Russian nesting dolls. His projects feature strange plays of transparency, reflection (through the use of reflective materials), irony (with the use of local materials and techniques), optical illusions, and the duplication and copying of existing buildings... all of which results in an extremely personal architecture.
