Antwerp Metropolitan Area
Caroline Voet is a Belgian architect and academic. Her practice VOET architectuur focuses on heritage, reconversions and the design of public interiors and scenography. They work for clients as the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAi), arts centre deSingel and Cinematek Brussels. With professional and research qualifications and experience in architecture, along with a PhD on design strategies, Voet operates through the oscillation between theory and practice. She is particularly interested in the development of architectural language, spatial systematics and design strategies. Through the dissection of (un)built heritage, architectural drawings and teaching material, she scans and reconstructs new paths of knowledge transferal. As an academic, Caroline Voet has taught on design, history and theory in Belgium and abroad. She was invited lecturer at for example ETH Zürich and Leibniz University Hannover. Since 2005 she is based at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Campus St-Lucas, where she is currently initiating the research group Structural Contingencies as assistant professor. Since 2016, she is guest professor at TU Delft, chair of Interiors. Her scholarly research has been published in a number of international journals including ARQ (Cambridge University Press) and Interiors (Routlegde). She wrote for the Architectural Yearbook Flanders and in 2016 she was co-editor of the book Autonomous Architecture in Flanders. Her latest book Dom Hans van der Laan. A House for the Mind received the DAM Architectural Book of the Year Award 2018. In parallel with her ongoing research on the work of Dom Hans van der Laan, Caroline Voet is currently developing the project of Pioneering Practices, which focuses on design strategies that fuelled architectural heritage of the 1970’s in Flanders.
www.voetarchitectuur.be Voet architectuur is a studio founded by Caroline Voet in Antwerp, Belgium. Caroline Voet is known for her love of materials and proportion, the craft of details and their historical framework. She designs, builds and writes about architecture. Through her love for immersive spaces, daily rituals and objects, she designs houses and public interiors, furniture and scenography, conversions of barns, and historical and modernist heritage. Caroline Voet and her team cross the disciplinary borders between architecture, interior design and scenography. She works on a range of projects for private as well as public clients: the Vlaams Architectuur Instituut (Flanders Architecture Institute), Arts Centre deSingel, the Interior Biennale in Kortrijk and Cinematek Brussels. Her furniture won several prizes (Good Design Award, Henry Van De Velde Label). The building practice is combined with research and analytical assignments into public buildings and heritage.
Continuing projects with a focus on architecture, design, scenography.
Voet en De Brabandere is a collaboration between Caroline Voet and Leen De Brabandere, focussing on scenography. They developed projects for clients as Museum Plantin Moretus, Red Star Line Museum and Koen Vanmechelen. www.voetendebrabandere.be
Dra. Caroline Voet (°1974) is a phd student at the Arenberg Doctoral School, K.U.Leuven, Belgium. The topic of the doctoral thesis is 'Spatial Systematics in the work of Dom Hans van der Laan'.