The Autrique House - First major "Modern Style" realisation by Victor Horta (1893). Presentation of the installations made by Schuiten and Peeters. Brussels.
The Flemish Architecture Institute - An information centre whose aim is to increase awareness of contemporary architecture. Projects, exhibitions, tours, publications, newsletter.
Este Group Architects - Group of architects formed in 1987 by architects An Dewulf and Peter Flamend. Full CAD-CAM applications, drawing and scale model facilities. All presentations are generated in-house. Brussels.
Tour & Taxis - A large-scale industrial heritage site dating from the early 20th century, on its way to a new destination. Presentation of the project. Brussels.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Architecture If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Architecture
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Architecture The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Architecture
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Architecture No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Architecture
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Architecture Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Architecture
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Architecture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Architecture
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Architecture
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Architecture "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Architecture
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Architecture Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Architecture
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Architecture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Architecture
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Architecture The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Architecture
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Architecture "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Architecture
