AgwA + BAST, ping-pong
2024
Soft cover / 148 pages / 11 x 17 cm / En or Fr
Published by AgwA + BAST
Designed by AgwA + BAST
Texts by AgwA + BAST
ISBN 978-2-9554238-4-4 (En)
ISBN 978-2-9554238-3-7 (Fr)
Price 8.29 euros + shipping costs
Price 8.29 euros + shipping costs
"AgwA: Can you see the screen? As soon as I put it on full screen, the pages will change every 37 seconds.
BAST: Have you prepared your texts?
AgwA and BAST: No... (inaudible hubbub)
BAST (aside): Hadn't we agreed to discuss the images each in turn?
AgwA: We had the same discussion. We're still undecided about taking turns with each slide; we'll likely improvise and see how it unfolds. (...) Are we sure everything's recording correctly? All set? Shall I begin?
BAST: Could we start with a short introduction? For the Lisbon Triennale in 2021, where we both were invited to lecture on the same evening, we preferred to share a single conference instead of holding two separate ones. We set up a ping-pong exchange of images via email for several weeks to shape the presentation, which lasted around an hour. Later, we decided to extend the ping-pong to 2022 and 2023, culminating in this document.
AgwA: We now have a total of 96 images, presenting an opportunity for a new “lecture” in a private setting via videoconference. This session is based on the extended version of our image ping-pong, and we'll transcribe it. It would be useful to mark the point where we move past the final image from the Lisbon conference."
BAST: Have you prepared your texts?
AgwA and BAST: No... (inaudible hubbub)
BAST (aside): Hadn't we agreed to discuss the images each in turn?
AgwA: We had the same discussion. We're still undecided about taking turns with each slide; we'll likely improvise and see how it unfolds. (...) Are we sure everything's recording correctly? All set? Shall I begin?
BAST: Could we start with a short introduction? For the Lisbon Triennale in 2021, where we both were invited to lecture on the same evening, we preferred to share a single conference instead of holding two separate ones. We set up a ping-pong exchange of images via email for several weeks to shape the presentation, which lasted around an hour. Later, we decided to extend the ping-pong to 2022 and 2023, culminating in this document.
AgwA: We now have a total of 96 images, presenting an opportunity for a new “lecture” in a private setting via videoconference. This session is based on the extended version of our image ping-pong, and we'll transcribe it. It would be useful to mark the point where we move past the final image from the Lisbon conference."
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Verbiest. Approximations, A House and an Artist’s Workshop in Molenbeek, AgwA + Evelia Macal
2022
Soft cover / 224 pages / 24 x 17 cm / En
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
Edited by Harold Fallon + Evelia Macal
Editorial design by Orfée Grandhomme
ISBN 978-3-7533030-2-4
Price 24.95 euros + shipping costs
"This books unfolds the design and realisation process of Verbiest, an architect’s house and an artist’s workshop in Molenbeek (Belgium) by Brussels- based architecture office AgwA with Maria Evelia Macal Guerra. A set of unpublished work documents including sketches, scale models, plans, and pictures is combined with a set of texts by AgwA’s partner Harold Fallon. The theoretical position of a project at the heart of a practice can be sensed in these writings.
Beyond the singularity of this remarkable project, the book demonstrates the critical relevance of construction, energy, and circularity in architecture theory and discourse. The book is supported by the KU Leuven Department of Architecture and has been double blind peer reviewed."
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AgwA 2006-2022
2022
Soft cover / 256 pages / 21.5 x 29.8 cm / En
Published Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, A+ Architecture in Belgium and Bozar Centre for Fine Arts
Designed by atelier Haegemann Temmerman
Texts by AgwA, Hülya Ertas, Pierre Chabard, Rolf Hughes
Interview by Lisa De Visscher, Iwan Strauven
ISBN 978-3-7533029-1-1
Price 39.95 euros + shipping costs
"AgwA is a Brussels-based architecture practice founded in 2003. Twenty-three projects are presented through various documents that explore AgwA’s process of thinking and building architecture. Together with two essays and an interview with the architects, this accumulation of drawings, sketches, scale models, plans and photographs illuminates the current condition of Belgian architecture – its roughness and playfulness – exploring and revealing the societal and cultural relevance of the materials, context, spatial gesture and structures within architecture."
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AgwA – chantier/construction site
2020
Soft cover / 96 pages / 27 x 21 cm / Multiple languages
Published by MER.
Designed by Orfée Grandhomme and Ismaël Bennani
Texts by Jan De Vylder, Tom Emerson
ISBN 978-9-4639300-2-4
Price 20 euros + shipping costs
"AgwA shows work in progress: execution as a verb. A collection of collected images. Without a necessary order or sequence. Enlarged and then zoomed in again. But moments that had to be visualised at that time. Perhaps merely to serve as witness. Perhaps ultimately as an unencumbered catalogue of which only this or that will really be understood later on. Or will even be used. AgwA makes work of work in progress: execution as a context. That all of those images are collected is not odd. Not odd in and of itself. As situated: the importance of the building site. But also not strange for AgwA itself. The work itself of AgwA. Increasingly the work situates the idea of what a building truly is. How it is made. Or rather, how it is actually made. — Jan De Vylder"