De Vylder Vinck Taillieu is a study based on Ghent, Belgium, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu, which tries to develop this idea. It is a study for which the work with the detail (Detailers) and its design are essential when you start projecting. They work intensively on all scales of project, drawing, understanding the process, design, production, from the small to the large scale, from the object to campus, from the familiar to the public client request.
This love for details leads them to generate an architecture full of surprises, where the architectural elements are beyond its mere function and become design objects that give character to their works.
In buildings for Les Ballets C B and LOD (Firgure 01 and 02) the structure of beams and pillars have not the same material and the same color. Each structural dimension has been accurately calculated instead of trying to conform to standardized units. This makes each item different from the previous one. The use of green in some of them gives a certain unity to the different buildings of the project, and is not only visible in the inner rooms but also from the outside, through a striking glass façade (Figure 01).
They also use the details for generating illusions that hide the changes made in rehabilitations. An example of this is the Weze house, an old school that transformed themselves into housing (Figures 03 and 04). Inside, the beams are left exposed in some areas, connecting the different levels of housing (Figure 05).
Their Sanderswal house also breaks with the idea of conventional housing. A large deck emerges from the side wall to cover kitchen that is attached to the "traditional" housing (Figure 06). The façade of this annex is solved by a brick wall in which white pieces are interleaved (Figure 07). The side of the wall disappears through a mirror coating (Figure 08).
In 2011 they began collaborating with Serge Vandenhove in a new professional project: JIJ's, an office dedicated to the design of everything that is not purely architecture.
Their work has been recognized with awards of architecture of his country on several occasions, they have been nominated to the Prizes Mies van der Rohe with the projects Les Ballets C from B & Lod and Rot-Ellen-Berg and Twiggy and 2015 they have also been selected for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. DVVT has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, in the Istanbul Design Biennial and at the New Museum in New York, among others. They have also taught and lectured at international schools such as the Accademia di architettura of Mendrisio and the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.
Jan de Vylder, and Jo Inge Vinck Taillieu are key figures in the current Belgian architecture. His method of work plays and breaks all conventions related to style, program-function, size, typologies or uses of materials in architecture. Is it possible to create a large building based on repetition, re-design or making of a detail whose serialization, repetition or singling becomes the protagonist of the building?
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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.
jo taillieu architecten. Architecture firm established by Jo Taillieu (1971). He is professor at EPFL (CH), director and manager of his own office, Jo Taillieu plays many parts yet he is first and foremost an architect. After working with different international architecture firms, Jo Taillieu founded his eponymous office in 2004, which he has been leading since. The practice evolved in 2009 to a collaboration with Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck, with whom he lead the office architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (advvt) for a decade. In 2018 advvt won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant at the 16th Biennale of Venice and was one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.
Next to the joint projects at architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, in 2019 the focus shifted back to its initial commitment, jo taillieu architecten (jta).
Knowledge of the practice, from conception to execution, is one of the strengths of the office. The genuine effort to execute a design and its realisation remains the fundamental concern. In this respect, jo taillieu architecten always strive to the ‘logic of construction’.
2004 – … jo taillieu architecten.
2010 – 2019 architecten de vylder vinck taillieu.
2008 – 2009 partner at Crepain Binst Architecture.
2007 – 2008 project collaborator at Project².
2001 – 2007 project manager at Stéphane Beel - Xaveer De Geyter architecten.
1997 – 2001 project manager at Stéphane Beel architecten.
1995 – 1996 collaborator at Maxwan architecten (NL).
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March 31, 2016
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