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Bart Macken °1964 / Aarschot / 1988 / Civil Engineer and Architect, University of Leuven / 1989 / Master at the Raymond Lemaire International Center for Conservation, University of Leuven / 1989 / Co-founder and partner of Macken & Macken Architecten / 2009 / Partner in charge with Eef Boeckx, Brussels / Teaching / 1990-1996 / Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, University of Leuven / 2008-2010 / Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic at the University of Ghent

Eef Boeckx °1974 / Beerse / 1997 / Architect, St-Lucas Higher Architectural Institute Brussels / 1998 / ‘Hedendaagse Wijsbegeerte’ and ‘Lezing van filosofische auteurs’ with Patricia de Martelaere, KUB / 1999-2009 / Project-architect at Macken & Macken Architecten / 2006-2007 / Project-architect at Gigantes Zenghelis Architects + Associates, Brussels / 2009 / Partner in charge with Bart Macken, Brussels / Teaching / 1998 / Tutor at workshop EASA Malta with Matthias Brettschneider / 2005- / Teaching at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Ghent / 2012-2014 / Visiting Critic Erasmus Intensive Programmes at Università Iuav di Venezia, Facoltà di Architettura / 2015-2016 / Visiting Critic Erasmus Intensive Programmes at Università di Napoli, Dipartimento di Architettura / 2019- / Teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, University of Hasselt

Competitions / Prizes / 2022 / Scholencampus BuSO-BuBao Aarschot with Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten, Laureate / 2022 / Open Oproep new low-tech offices for Leiedal Kortrijk, Laureate / 2008 / Open Oproep Public Library Wemmel, Laureate / 2007 / Nomination ‘Belgium Architecture Awards’ for house with studio at Leefdaal / 2006 / Invited competition for reconversion café and bookshop WIELS Contemporary Art Center Brussels, 2nd laureate and special mention of the jury / 2005 / nomination ‘LAI interior prize 2005’ (NL) for house with studio at Leefdaal / 2000 / Public competition for extension to ‘de Warande’ cultural centre, Turnhout, winners / 1998 / Public competition for local council office at Sint-Katelijne-Waver, 2nd prize / 1997 / Charles Wilford Prize for Architecture for house at Muizen / 1996 / Public competition for 15 social homes, Waasmunster, 2nd prize

Exhibitions / Installations / Lectures / 2010 / Powerdown lecture ‘Architecture without waste’ at University of Ghent / 2008 / Kraftbau lecture at University of Ghent / 2008 / Leefdaal House and de Warande cultural centre, in: 'Architectuur in beeld', exposition at Paleis voor Schone Kunsten (Bozar), Brussels / 2007 / Lecture at Archipel, Brugges / 2006 / WIELS Off Site exhibition / 2006 / Lecture at symposium ‘Kunst in Opdracht’, Lamot Mechelen, initiated by the team of the Flemish Government Architect / 2006 / Outdoor installation at Speelhoven / 2005 / AMO exhibition Mechelen shows house at Muizen, photography Patrick Robyn / 2005 / Lecture in artcenter Z33, Hasselt / 2003 / Lecture in the series Auditorium 03 initiated by the ‘Stichting Stad en Architectuur’, at Stuk, Leuven / 2003 / 'Real time still', video installation at ‘de Warande’ cultural centre, Turnhout / 2001 / ‘Het Wilde Wonen’ exhibition in Nai, Rotterdam, houses Muizen, Beerzel, Leefdaal / 2001 / ‘Blitzbeton’, workshop and lecture in: Witte de With, contemporary art centre, Rotterdam / 2001 / ‘Flat_Space’, exhibition and installation at Witte zaal, Gent / 2000 / ‘Brussel 2000-Supernova, Jonge Belgische architectuur’, house at Leefdaal, house at Beerzel, de Warande Cultural Centre / 1998 / ‘Architectuur in Vlaanderen 1996-1997’, exhibition at deSingel international arts centre, Antwerp, house at Muizen

Publications 'Perziken in Parijs', by Eef Boeckx, in: 'A+297 Architecture of Energy', 2022 / Collage Howards End (E.M. Forster), in ’50 Fictieve Gebouwen’, by Christophe van Gerrewey (red.), DW B 159/5, special edition 3, 2014 / Leefdaal House, in: ‘Architectuur België, 25 jaar in 75 projecten’, Lannoo, 2014 / Library VA&S University of Ghent, in: ’Bouwen aan de bibliotheek’, VA&S Ugent, 2011 / ‘Architecture without waste’, in: Powerdown, Vakgroep Architectuur & Stedenbouw Ugent, 2010 / de Warande, in: 'Jaarboek Architectuur Vlaanderen', Vai, 2008 / ‘Woonhuis met atelier’, by Lionel Devlieger, in: 'Jaarboek Architectuur Vlaanderen', Vai, 2008 / Leefdaal House, in: A+ (BE), no. 208, okt-nov 2008 / de Warande, in: De Standaard architectuurbibliotheek, 1000 jaar architectuur in Belgium, Lannoo, 2008 / de Warande cultural centre, in: World Architecture Magazine (China), no. 201, 03-2007 / de Warande, in: 'Van klei tot kristal', by Wouter Davidts and Maarten Delbeke, in: Etcetera (BE), no. 105, feb 2007 / Leefdaal House, in: 'Convertible Houses', by Amanda Lam and Amy Thomas, Gibbs Smith Publishers (NY), 2007 / House at Leefdaal, Sun and Moon curtains, in: 'Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse', NAi Publishers Rotterdam, 2006 / Kindergarten and primary school 'De Regenboog' at Grimbergen, in: ‘Het curriculum en de verblijfplaats’, by Maarten Van Den Driessche, in: De school als ontwerpopgave, A&S books & the team of the Flemish Government Architect, 2006 / Speelhoven outdoor installation, private collection, 150 ex. by Speelhoven vzw, 2006 / de Warande, in: ‘Open en gesloten’, by Pierijn van der Putt, in: de Architect (NL), juni 2006 / ‘the Warande Cultural Centre, countering the brutalism of the existing building’, by Lars Kwakkenbos, in: A10 (NL), no. 7, jan/feb 2006 / de Warande, in: ‘Nuchter glas’, by Lars Kwakkenbos, in: A+ (BE) no. 197, dec 2005 / de Warande, in: ‘Snaphot and façade’, by Maarten Delbeke, in: Moderne tijden-Teksten over architectuur, Vlees & Beton, no. 72, 2007 / House at Leefdaal, by Marc Dubois, in: de Architect (NL) nov 2005 / House at Leefdaal, in: ‘Las cortinas mágicas de Blaisse’, by Miguel Barahona, in: Diseño Interior (ES), no. 158, sept 2005 / ‘Het nieuwe bestaan van de aanwezigheid’, by Christophe Van Gerrewey, in: Moderne tijden-Teksten over architectuur, Vlees & Beton, no. 72, 2007 / House at Leefdaal, in: ‘Light Sculpting’, by Andrew Yang, in: Metropolis (US), May 2005 / Absoluut Architectuur, Ghent, 2004 / ‘Statement and Style’, by Maarten Delbeke, in: ‘Macken & Macken: Vijf huizen / Five houses', series Young architects in Flanders, no. 01, Vai/A16, 2003 / House at Leefdaal, in: A+U (JP), no. 05, 2003 / Young Architects in Belgium: The Quest for Recognition, by Vincent Brunetta and Véronique Patteeuw, in Archis no. 05, Amsterdam, 2001 / Brussels 2000 Supernova, 'Jonge Belgische architectuur', Brussels, 2000 / House at Muizen, in: ‘La villa à Muizen de Macken et Macken. La nouvelle icone de l’architecture flamande?’, by Vincent Brunetta, in: DDO Trimestriel de la création contemporaine de l’eurorégion Nord, Roubaix (FR), no. 38, dec 1999 / House at Muizen, in: ‘Wonen in Belgische architectuur’, by Maarten Delbeke, in: Archis no. 08, 1998 / House at Muizen, in: ‘Jaarboek Architectuur Vlaanderen 1996-1997’ / Sporenburg island Amsterdam, in Archis no. 02, 1995 / Chassé Breda, in Archis, no. 08, 1994

Monograph 2003 / ‘Macken & Macken: Vijf huizen / Five houses’, edit. Vincent Brunetta / Véronique Patteeuw, series Young architects in Flanders, no. 01, Vai/A16, 2003, reprint 02/2005