De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Kouter II House, Melle (Belgium)

The resumption of professional practice after the 2008 crisis revealed new sensibilities in European architecture, among them an attitude towards design that related to what traditionally had been considered mannerist: ambiguities, tensions, dislocations, or displacements in certain formal and material configurations which were capable even of pushing to the limits of contradiction or paradox some of the categories by which we approach the architectural experience. It is not that architects appear who can be considered mannerist, nor works that can be classified as such. What emerge are specific operations conceived from the angle of a mentality where a sense of uncertainty settles, whether due to lack of determination regarding programs, ambivalence towards preexistences, duality with respect to scale, translocation between exterior and interior, even through much more subtle operations...[+]