Wim Cuyvers (born 19 February 1958) is a contemporary Belgian architect living in Chatillon, France.
Cuyvers is known for blending design projects, with a specific interest in private houses and schools, and study projects, a.o. into the postwar condition of cities like Sarajevo and Prishtina and into informal uses at rest places along highways. [1] Wim Cuyvers quit architectural practice after having a highly successful career, with a solo exhibition at deSingel Art Centre in Antwerp (1995) and winning the prestigious culture award by the Flemish Government (2005). [2] In 2000 Cuyvers moved to the Jura in France to start a refuge project called Montavoix. [3] Although latest works has been often categorized as art, Wim Cuyvers still claims these works to be site-specific meditations on public space and architecture more in general. [4]
Born in Hasselt, Belgium, Wim Cuyvers graduated in architecture at the Ghent Academy (1977–82). He worked in the United States at Preston Phillips and Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown. Later he worked at Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem Architects in Ghent, Belgium. He started his own architectural office in 1984 in Ghent, Belgium. Cuyvers has been teaching at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Ghent, the Academie voor Bouwkunst in Tilburg and the Design Academy Eindhoven. Until 2008 he has been advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. [1]
In 2012 Cuyvers did the scenography for the play MEDIUM (Buda Kunstencentrum & De Werf & Vrijstaat O.) written by Tijs Ceulemans, Peter Aers and Leentje Vandenbussche.
On 8 February 2006 Wim Cuyvers received the prestigious Flemish Culture Prize 2005 (Cultuurprijs Vlaanderen 2005) in the Architecture category. [9]
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