Bob van Reeth, one of the most important postwar Belgian architects and the first Flemish Government Architect from 1999 to 2005, will be 70 in 2013. BOZAR ARCHITECTURE and A+ look back on his rich career with a retrospective exhibition and an accompanying publication about his work.
Architect Bob van Reeth has designed an impressive series of buildings over the past half-century, from the Cambron jewellery store that he designed between 1966 and 1968 while still a student, to the Dossin memorial, museum and documentation centre in Mechelen, which was delivered in 2013.
His work includes architectural classics like the Botte Villa in Mechelen, the Zuiderterras in Antwerp and the Huis van Roosmalen (an iconic black and white striped building along the Scheldt quays), as well as lesser-known and unexecuted competition projects for a hotel on the Astridplein in Antwerp, the Sea Trade Terminal in Zeebrugge and the Ostend casino.
Bob van Reeth, one of the most important postwar Belgian architects and the first Flemish Government Architect from 1999 to 2005, will be 70 in 2013. BOZAR ARCHITECTURE and A+ look back on his rich career with a retrospective exhibition and an accompanying publication about his work.
Architect Bob van Reeth has designed an impressive series of buildings over the past half-century, from the Cambron jewellery store that he designed between 1966 and 1968 while still a student, to the Dossin memorial, museum and documentation centre in Mechelen, which was delivered in 2013.
His work includes architectural classics like the Botte Villa in Mechelen, the Zuiderterras in Antwerp and the Huis van Roosmalen (an iconic black and white striped building along the Scheldt quays), as well as lesser-known and unexecuted competition projects for a hotel on the Astridplein in Antwerp, the Sea Trade Terminal in Zeebrugge and the Ostend casino.
The list of projects of the present Architecten Werkgroep (AWG), founded by Van Reeth in 1972, currently contains 678 items (both realised and unrealised projects).
