bOb Van Reeth Revisited: Mechelen 1969-1975 (Edition of 750 numbered copies) Koop Vandaag

This ‘homage’ analyses some of the buildings with which the young architect bOb van Reeth (b. 1943) made a splash at the end of the 1960s and which have since been recorded as classics of post-war architecture in Belgium: the Botte house, the architect’s own house in the Mechelen Small Beguinage and the renovation of the Baumann farm. In addition, the renovation proposal for a threatened neighbourhood in the Mechelen city centre is discussed, a project with which Belgium participated in the Venice Art Biennale in 1975.