Marie-Jose Van Hee Architecten: More Home, More Garden examines nine key projects by the Belgian architect — from small interventions and furniture to award-winning outdoor spaces — through photography, essays, client accounts, and Van Hee's own distinctive black drawings.
About This Book
Marie-Jose Van Hee has built a quiet but singular reputation through an architecture that insists on the relationship between built form and natural context. This monograph surveys that work across scales, from discreet interior interventions to substantial residential and garden projects, and does so through multiple voices: critical essays, a first-person interview, and accounts from three clients who describe living inside Van Hee's architecture. Three photographers contribute their own readings of the work, ensuring the buildings are seen rather than merely documented. The book closes with a selection of Van Hee's characteristically spare black drawings, which illuminate the contextual thinking — the dialogue between architecture and nature — that underpins the practice.
Key Features
- 268 pages of project photography, critical essays, client testimony, and architectural drawings across nine key projects
- Contributions from three photographers presenting independent perspectives on Van Hee's architecture
- Includes a selection of Van Hee's "black drawings" and an updated project list
- Published by Quart Verlag
What You'll Discover
- How Van Hee's practice spans scales — from furniture and small interventions through to award-winning outdoor and garden spaces
- The relationship between architecture and nature as expressed through Van Hee's contextual drawing practice
- What it is to inhabit Van Hee's houses, told directly by three clients who live in them
- How three photographers with distinct perspectives interpret the same body of built work differently
About the Author
Marie-Jose Van Hee is a Belgian architect whose practice spans residential architecture, landscape, and furniture design. Her work has received award recognition for its outdoor spaces and is characterised by a sustained attention to the relationship between architectural form and its natural surroundings.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 268
- Dimensions: 227 x 308 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783037613153
- Publisher: Quart Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers interested in residential architecture and landscape, students of contemporary European practice, and readers who value monographs that move beyond image-led documentation to include critical and lived perspectives.