Vincent Van Duysen Architects

Profile of Vincent Van Duysen Architects

Business Name

Vincent Van Duysen Architects

Location

Belgium

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.vincentvanduysen.com

Vincent Van Duysen

Principal(s)

Vincent Van Duysen (born 1962)

• Architectural Studies, Higher Institute of Architecture, Sint-Lucas Gent, 1985

Philosophy

The interiors and the architecture of Vincent Van Duysen Architects are characterised by a mixture of simplicity and sensuality, and a preference for primary forms and compact volumes. Our style can be described with a long line of adjectives: flat, simple, clear, but also pure, elementary, essential, minimal, and silent, quiet, relaxed.

For Vincent Van Duysen Architects the design is the outcome of a process of progressive refinement in which the raw material - a mixture composed of suggestions, awareness and reminiscence - is gradually purified and ordered until it reaches a final point of stable geometric equilibrium. When called on to renovate a building, we work more on the space - always revealing the original structure - than on the furnishing, using a reductionist design that underlines plastic and communicative values.

Our prolific output includes a wide diversity of works and projects extending from furniture design, via interior design for houses, apartments, shops and offices, to the planning of single-family housing.

Background

• Founded: 1990
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 17

Key projects

• VH residence, Lokeren, Belgium, 1995-1997, Single family house
• DC residence, Waasmunster, Belgium, 1998-2001, Single family house
• CONCORDIA TEXTILES, Waregem, Belgium, 1998-2000, office building
• NATAN shop, Brussels, Belgium, 1995, shop concept
• YOUTH HOSTEL, Antwerp, Belgium, 2004-2009, youth hostel
• SELFRIDGES ladies wear, London, United Kingdom, 2000, shop concept
• SPORTMAX shops, Milan, Paris, Tokyo, 1999, shop concept
• CAPCO offices, Antwerp, New York, San Francisco, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Office concept
• BLOCK 20-02, Beirut, Lebanon, 2006, office tower
• Several furniture designs for Obumex, Modular, B&B Italia, Cappellini, Swarovski, Bulo, Viccarbe, Poliform, DAB, 1999-2007

Key publications

• Monograph Vincent Van Duysen, GG Editorial, 2001
• Yearbook Architecture Flanders, 1994-1995
• Yearbook Architecture Flanders, 1996-1997
• 40 architects under 40, TASHEN, 2000
• Yearbook Architecture Flanders, 2000-2001
• The Phaidon atlas of contemporary architecture, Phaidon Press Ltd, 2004
• Minimalist design, Birkhauser, 2004
• The International Design Yearbook 2005, Laurence King, 2005
• House Plus, Thames & Hudson, 2005
• Brussels Style, Minimalist Style, Minimalist Interiors, TASHEN, 2006

Key awards

• 1999, The Outstanding Young Persons Award, Belgium