CURRICULUM VITAE
Name : Vincent Callebaut Architect
Born : in 1977
Nationality : Belgian
Diploma : in 2000 awarded with René Serrure First Prize at ISAIVH
Address France : 119, rue Manin, 75019 Paris
Address Belgium : 26, rue André Renard, 7110 la Louvière (H-G)
Email : vincent@callebaut.org
Website : www.vincent.callebaut.org
Phone : 0033.1.42.45.11.10
Mobile : 0033.6.29.86.62.41
BIOGRAPHY
In 2000, Vincent Callebaut, 23 years old, graduated with the Great Architecture Prize René Serrure awarding the best diploma project at the Institute Victor Horta in Brussels for its Parisian project « Metamuseum of Arts and Civilisations » Quay Branly.
Then, thanks to the bursary Leonardo da Vinci attributed by the European Community, he decided to live in Paris to extend its critical thinking and its spatial inventiveness during two years of internship in agencies that fascinate him (Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes, Massimiliano Fuksas).
In 2001, he competed in box and won the Grand Architecture Prize Napoléon Godecharle of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels awarding the best hope of the Belgian architecture with its ecological project « Elasticity, an aquatic city of 50 000 inhabitants entirely autonomous». The jury appreciated at the same time « his dynamism, his expression force and the coherence of his concept » and recognised « a personality endowed with a remarkable aptitude giving well-founded expectations of great success and able thus to contribute to the fact that reputation of Belgium becomes a truth ».
In 2005, he was the finalist of the RE-New Architecture Pleasures awarding the 12 best figures of the Architecture in the French Community of Belgium. During the same year, the Edition Company Damdi of Seoul dedicated him at the age of 28 its first architecture monograph detailing the story of its awarded and exhibited projects during worldwide spontaneous proposals and international competitions.
Since then, in the framework of his agency and great collaborations (Jakob+MacFarlane, Claude Vasconi, Jacques Rougerie), he militates continuously for the long lasting development of the new Ecopolis via «parasitical» strategies for an investigation architecture mixing biology to information and communication technologies
>From New York to Hong Kong crossing Brussels and Paris, Vincent Callebaut proposes with determination and conviction prospective and ecological projects by insufflating locally dialogs and meetings that try to raise our questionings on the society in which we live as citizen of a global world!
MONOGRAPHS
2007 : Archibiotic, Vincent Callebaut Architectures, 300p., Beijing Office - AADCU Editions, Beijing, China
2005 : New Worlds, Vincent Callebaut Architectures, 192p., Damdi Editions, Seoul, South Korea
AWARDS
2005 : RE-Nouveaux Plaisirs d’Architecture, Mention, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
2003 : BIARC, Honourable mention, Busan, South Korea
2003 : High Line, Honourable mention, New York, U.S.A.
2001 : Napoléon Godecharle, First Prize, Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2000 : René Serrure, First Prize, ISAIVH, Brussels, Belgium
1999 : René Serrure, First Prize, ISAIVH, Brussels, Belgium
PROJECTS AND COMPETITIONS
2007 : Anti-Smog, Innovation Centre in Sustainable Development, Paris, France
2007 : Perfumed Jungle, Ecological Master plan for the Central Waterfront, Hong Kong, China
2007 : Ecomic Tower, Ecological and Metropolitan Informatic Center, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 : Childhood’s Greentower, Crib for the Early Childhood, Paris, France
2007 : Neuronal Alien, Landscape design for the Vatnsmyri Airfield, Reykjavik, Iceland
2006 : Red Baobab, New National Library, Prague, Czech Republic
2006 : Basalt Precipice, New Prehistory Museum, Gyeonggi-do Jeongok, South Korea
2006 : Fields in Fields, Estionian National Museum building complex, Tartu, Estonia
2005 : Landscript, Master plan for Geneva 2020, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 : Eye of the Storm, New Performing Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
2005 : Sensuous Geographies, Landscape design for the Royal Canal Linear Park, Dublin, Ireland
2005 : Poetry of Light under the Grove, AIDS Memorial, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2004 : Underwater Venice of Beirut, Masterplan for the Martyrs’s Square, Beirut, Lebanon
2004 : Fractured Monolith, Hotel and Congress Center, Brussels, Belgium
2004 : Light Rail Transit’s 8 Lighthouses, Master plan of 7 linear km, Port Louis, Mauritius
2004 : St Lawrence Panoramic Gardens, Landscape design for the refitting of the Montmorency Fall, Quebec, Canada
2004 : Floating Islands, Master plan for the Findus Site and the Arctic Culture Centre, Hammerfest, Norway
2004 : Urban Corset, an Hybrid Intermediary, Master plan for the Namur’s gate, Brussels, Belgium
2003 : Atoll below the Ocean’s Level, Landscape design redefining the Busan Urban Waterfront, Busan, South Korea
2003 : Link, 120 housings, Tubize, Belgium
2003 : Wandering Gardens in Manhattan, Master plan for Designing 1,5 Miles of the High Line, Manhattan, U.S.A.
2003 : Ecocoon, Recycling Landscapes, Belgium
2003 : Liquid Skin, Recycling the River Liffey, U2 studios, Dublin, Ireland
2002 : Accelerated Urbanism, Alternative Urbanism, Hong-Kong, Shenzen, Guilin, Kunming, Xi'An, Beijing, China
2002 : Ecstacity 2, a Synesthesic Leisure, Telecity, Dessau, Germany
2002 : Ecstacity 1, a Synesthesic Leisure, Futur Vision Leisure, Linz, Autria
2002 : Experiments Garden, 80 housings, Brugge, Belgium
2001 : Biocity, an Urban Aquarium, Master plan for the Quartier Nord, Brussels, Belgium
2001 : Sensual Attraction, an Interactive Democracy, Virtual headquarters for NATO, Brussels, Belgium
2001 : Moving Trans-Fer, an Oblique Continuity, Europan 6 In Between Cities, Saint – Etienne, France
2001 : Elasticity, a Submarine City of 50,000 Inhabitants Totaly Autonomous, Brussels, Belgium
2000 : Casino in Brussels?/Where?/Why?/How?, Master plan for Eurocasino, Brussels, Belgium
2000 : Metamuseum of Arts and Civilisations, Quai Branly, Paris, France
1999 : Dolmen, Magistrates’Court, La Louvière, Belgium
EXHIBITIONS
2007 : Designing Hong Kong, Pier 8, Hong Kong, China
2007 : Eye above Prague, Klementinum Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 : Grand Prix d’Architecture, Institut de France, Paris, France
2006 : Fabrique du Projet, Maison de l’Architecture d’Ile-de-France, Paris, France
2006 : Gyeonggi-do Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, South Korea
2006 : Festival de la ville, Cité Administrative de l’Etat, Brussels, Belgium
2006 : New Estonian National Museum, Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2005 : Genève 2020, Visions Urbaines, Chambre Genevoise Immobilière, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 : Beyond Media 05 Script, Ospedale degli innocenti, Florence, Italia
2005 : Martyrs’s Square and the Grand Axis of Beirut, Dome City Center, Beirut, Lebanon
2005 : Re-Nouveaux Plaisirs d’Architecture, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
2005 : Tribune, Saint-Luc, Liège, Belgium
2005 : National Aids Memorial, California College of Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2005 : Seoul Performing Arts Center, Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea
2004 : Perspective Littoral, Municipality of Quebec, Beauport, Canada
2004 : Line's Barracks, Municipality of Port Louis, Mauritius
2004 : Arctic Culture Centre, Municipality of Hammerfest, Norway
2003 : Captured Ocean, Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO), Busan, South Korea
2003 : Designing The High Line, Grant Central Terminal, Summer Benefit Festival, New York,U.S.A.
2003 : Attitudes, Clos Cacao Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2001 : In Between Cities, Institut Français d’Architecture, Paris, France
2001 : Vocations, Architectures under Project, Université Libre of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
2001 : Godecharles, Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2000 : Academic Exhibition, ISAIVH, Brussels, Belgium
2000 : Pentagon Development Delegation, Municipality of Brussels, Belgium
1999 : Less Aesthetic and More Ethic in Architecture, Régie des Bâtiments, Brussels, Belgium
1998 : Quartier-Nord Questioning, Municipality of Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
1995 : Indigo Painting, Arts et Métiers, La Louvière, Belgium
1995 : Drawings, Indigo Gallery, La Louvière, Belgium
PUBLICATIONS
2007 : Anti-Smog, an ecological design concept for Clean Air, by Bharat Bhushan, ecofriend.org, Shimla, India
2007 : Anti-Smog Potencia y Ecologia, moveyourmind.es, Madrid, Spagna
2007 : Anti-Smogin Paris, by Ben Gray, arquict.wordpress.com, Madrid, Spagna
2007 : French Anti-Smog, by Ryan McClain, architecture.mnp.com, Madrid, Spagna
2007 : Des tours de vert, by William Bolle – NAJA, developpementdurablelejournal.com, Paris, France
2007 : Cradle to cradle-aanpak in Hong Kong, by Gerrit Jan Hoogland, senternovem.nl, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2007 : Vision contemporaine, by Adrien Bernard, techno-science.net, Paris, France
2007 : Visions of an ultra-contemporary city, by Sara Mercer, worldarchitecturenews.com, London, England
2007 : Ecodiseño de Hong-Kong, por Vincent Callebaut, Ecossek.net, Madrid, Spagna
2007 : Perfumed Jungle, by Elena Yakovleva, Letabure Magazine, Yekaterinburg City, Russia
2007 : Ein Dschungel als neue Öko-Skyline für Hongkong, by Dietmar Treiber, Die Welt, Berlin, Germany
2007 : Perfumed Jungle, IDH Magazine, Moscou, Russia
2007 : Ecopolis : Hong Kong haventfront groen, Ecocool.nl, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007 : V. Callebaut dreams to convert HK into a Perfumed Jungle, by Anupam Jolly, Ecofriend.org, Jalandhar, India
2007 : Red Baobab, Mark Magazine 10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 : Recent Projects, B-1 Magazine, 09/2007, B.E.V International Edition, Bangkok,Thailand
2007 : Recent Projects, Gallery Magazine, Editor Julia Brodskaya, Kiev, Ukraine
2007 : Neuronal Alien, Epiteszforum.hu, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007 : Ecomic Tower, Construction Variety Magazine, volume 1 number 6, Bangkok, Thailand
2007 : Ecomic Tower, Arqbacana - Arq Mundo, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 : Ecomic Tower, Motoratnext magazine, Beijing, China
2007 : New age Design Concepts, by Luis Lopes, morfoll.blogspot.com, Lisboa, Portugal
2007 : Vincent Callebaut, Architecte de la semaine, by Ryan McClain, architecture.myninjaplease.com, Spagna
2006 : Vincent Callebaut Portfolio, europaconcorsi.com, Roma, Italia
2005 : Geneve 2020 Co-Habitation, Exhibition catalog, Infolio Editions, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 : Pour une Architecture Décodifiée et Irrespectueuse, by Chistophe Leray, cyberarchi.com, Paris, France
2005 : L’Oeil du Cyclone à Séoul, cyberarchi.com magazine, Paris, France
2005 : Les Nouveaux Mondes de Vincent Callebaut, cyberarchi.com, Paris, France
2004 : Re-Nouveaux Plaisirs d’Architecture, Exhibition catalog, p.44-47, Brussels, Belgium
2004 : Perspective littoral, Exhbition catalog, LEAP-Lab editions, Montréal, Canada
2004 : Sensual Attraction, an Interactive Democracy, Change, p.278-283, Prisme Editions, Brussels, Belgium
2004 : Urban Corset, an Hybrid Intermediary, Change, p.250-255, Prisme Editions, Brussels, Belgium
2004 : Sensual Attraction, an Interactive Democracy, L’Immo du Soir, p.1-2, 30/12/2004, Brussels, Belgium
2003 : Wandering Gardens in Manhattan, Highlines New-York Rotterdam, p.36-37, Editions N.A.D., New York, U.S.A.
2001 : Elasticity for Recycling, Belgium New Architecture, p.240-241, Prisme Editions, Brussels, Belgium
2001 : Elasticity for Recycling, A+ Import/Export/Nl nb 170, p.32., Editions CIAUD, Brussels, Belgium
COLLABORATIONS
2006 - 2007 : Jacques Rougerie Architect, Paris, France
2003 - 2005 : Vasconi Associés Architectes, Paris, France
2003 : Jakob + Macfarlane, Paris, France
2002 - 2003 : Massimiliano Fuksas Architecture, Paris, France
2001 - 2002 : Joël Claisse Architectures, Prisme Editions, Brussels, Belgium
2000 - 2001 : Odile Decq Benoît Cornette, Architectes Urbanistes, Paris, France
1999 - 2000 : Joël Claisse et Associés, Brussels, Belgium
REFEREES
This is a list of people who influence my work with new and progressive view that they had or have on the future world :
Archigram, architects : for their thematic expression of problems concerning the life in the society which is part of all architecture view in the consumer society.
Ernst Haeckel, naturalist, biologist : for his interest about processes of growth, evolution and life development processes. He is the inventor of ecology.
André Bloc, painter, sculptor, architect : for his questioning of the modern rationalist space and his still prospective researches regarding housing.
Claude Parent, architect : for his exploration of new principles in architecture (see “Plan Oblique”) and the experimentation of new dynamics through “Néo-brutalisme”.
John McCarthy, computer scientist : for his contribution to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Stanley Kubrick, film director : for his rational translation of the nowadays’ civilisation, but especially for his logic and his clearness leading his independant approach, because they are the guarantee of his freedom facing an economical system that he beaten at his own game.
Jean Arp, sculptor : for his anamorphoses and his concretions which seem to give life to inertia.
Enki Bilal in the Humanoïdes Associés, bd drawer : for his graphical ability to spread out pluridisciplinary worlds.
Eadweard Muybridge, photographer : for his decomposition of human movements and his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion with his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated celluloid film strip still used today.
Stelarc, performance artist : for his works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body
