A French-language edition that showcases ten outstanding art-in-architecture works by Belgian artist Beno t van Innis.
Belgian artist and illustrator Beno t van Innis (1960-2024) created numerous drawings and cartoons that were published in both European and American magazines, most prominently The New Yorker. In the late 1990s, he increasingly turned to painting, engaged with architecture, and was involved in various projects that brought together art and the built environment.
Beno t: Artist in Architecture is the first book to feature the artist's collaboration with Belgian, Swiss, and British design firms De Smet Vermeulen, EM2N, JTA/aDVVT, Kraaijvanger Architects, Marie-Jos Van Hee, Robbrecht en Daem, noAarchitecten, and Sergison Bates architects. It offers insight into his creative exchanges with architects and traces the emergence of a shared, new authorship in the interplay of art and architecture.
The book is organized into four thematic chapters: Table, Space, Landscape, and City. Ten of Beno t's spatial works are presented in depth, each introduced by a descriptive text. Supplementing essays shed light on Beno t's methods and craftsmanship, and the volume is rounded out with an illustrated complete catalog of Beno t's entire art-in-architecture oeuvre.