Martine De Maeseneer Architects

Since 2008 Martine De Maeseneer Architects exists 20 years. This is celebrated by the realisation of their (first) public building of a certain scale, the Bronks Youth Theatre, in the centre of Brussels, which was recently one of the 6 finalists in the prestigious European Mies van der Rohe Prize 2011
So far their journey followed a limited edition of realisations of private houses, office buildings, social housing, all of them extensively published.
Martine De Maeseneer Architects is not a compulsive builder. The practice mediates between 'theorisation' and 'realisation'. How can we build in 'differance' (with an 'a') in our practice as a selfregulating machine? It is a question about quantity (also), but then of a different order. In order to reach this, we started looking for a medium that isn't preoccupied with form, image and Gestalt.