Bart Lootsma
Curator of the exhibition

Bart Lootsma (born in Amsterdam in 1957) graduated in architecture from Eindhoven University, where, in 1984, he obtained a master’s degree in the History and Theory of Architecture. Since then he has pursued an international career as a historian, critic, exhibition curator, and teacher in the overlapping fields of architecture, contemporary art and design. Bart Lootsma has been involved in the writing of many publications including Adriaan Geuze/West 8 Landscape Architects with Inge Breugem in 1995; Wiel Arets, a virological architecture, in collaboration with Jos Bosman in 1995; Media and Architecture in collaboration with Dick Rijken in 1998; The Yearbook of Architecture in the Netherlands in 1999 and 2000. He was a visiting professor at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, A42.org in Nüremberg and the Technical University of Innsbruck. He is also the author of an acclaimed book, SuperDutch in 2000, which presents a critical overview of architecture in the Netherlands today. He also published a monograph on B&K in 2003 and Body + Globe, Collected Essays 1995-2001 in 2004. As a member of the ArchiLab scientific committee in 2001 and 2002, Bart Lootsma is widely recognized for his expertise, know-how and very state-of-the-art knowledge of presentday architecture.

Marie-Ange Brayer
Art Director, ArchiLab

The art historian, art critic and architectural critic Marie-Ange Brayer (born in Belgium in 1964) has been director of the Regional Contemporary Art Collection (FRAC Centre) of France’s Centre Region in Orléans since 1996. The FRAC’s collection is devoted to architecture in its experimental dimension. As co-founder with Frédéric Migayrou of the ArchiLab conferences in Orléans, she herself curated these events with Béatrice Simonot in 2001 and 2002. In this latter year the two curators were also in charge of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennal. Having presented the FRAC Centre collections as part of ArchiLab 2003, Marie-Ange Brayer will henceforth by responsible for ArchiLab’s artistic management.