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Marie-José Van Hee received an Ultima Award, the 2023 Flanders Prize for Architecture on 16 May 2023
'Marie-José Van Hee architecten. A Walk'
from 30 Nov. 2022 - 21 May 2023. De Singel, Antwerp, kindly supported by Flanders State of the Art.
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Profile

Marie-José Van Hee and her team of architects renew the tradition of building timeless architecture. Van Hee has devoted particular attention to space, natural materials, and light throughout her career. She has used classical elements such as the window, door, fireplace, staircase and gallery to anchor the house, the public building, or even the city.

Marie-José has, over the years, gained respect and esteem for the extraordinarily high quality of life offered by the buildings she designs. They manage to capture in an unpretentious way the intimacy of living in stone and light and reinvent the townhouse typology as a cornerstone of the city of tomorrow, qualities that make her work unique. Her designs for public buildings and bridges are less well known but also shape a humanistic vision of architecture and the city through the valorisation of public space as a meeting place and the use of a truly authentic architecture to intensify the experience of light, space and human contact.

Marie-José Van Hee (°1950, Ghent BE) studied architecture at the Higher Institute of Architecture Sint- Lucas in Ghent (Hoger Architectuurinstituut Sint-Lucas). She formed her own architecture studio in Ghent in 1975. Since 1990 her office has worked closely together on several projects with Robbrecht & Daem architecten, with whom she shares an office in Lieremanstraat in Ghent. Currently, she employs 6-8 collaborators working on projects for public buildings, private houses and urban development.

As a professor in architectural design, Marie-José has long been connected with the Architecture Department of Sint-Lucas School of Architecture and, from 2016 to 2017, as visiting professor at the ETH Zurich. She frequently lectures about the work and has been invited as a guest lecturer and critic at universities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Marie-José Van Hee has received various architecture prizes and nominations nationally and internationally. On three occasions, she was awarded the Provincial Prize for Architecture (2013 - Province Vlaams-Brabant / 2003 and 1993 - Province Oost-Vlaanderen), and the reconversion of the centre of the cities of Deinze and Ghent received the Prize Bouwmeester in 2013. She was nominated for the Dutch Abe Bonnemaprijs 2013 and was twice nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe European Prize for Architecture in 1999 for her own house and in 2013 for Market Hall Ghent.

Marie-José Van Hee participated in the 13th and 16th Biennale di Venezia at the invitation of curators Yvonne Farrel and Shelley McNamara in 2018 and Sir David Chipperfield in 2012 and participated in the Belgian Pavillion in 1991 and 2021. She received the Biannual Culture Prize for Architecture of the Flemish Community in 1997 and has been a fellow of the Belgian Royal Academy for Sciences and Art since 2008. In 2017, Marie-José was honoured with the 2017 RIBA International Fellowship.

Team Marie-José Van Hee architecten 2022

Current and past team members:
Jan Baes | Els Claessens | Sylvie Cosyns | Mattias Deboutte | Wannes De Brouwer | Céline De Clercq | Bram De Gieter | Lennert Dejonghe | Viktor Derks | Frederik De Smedt | Sam De Vocht | Valerie Doutreluingne | Thomas Faes | Dirk Goyens | Artuur Herman | Frédéric Hossey | Yza Hunsinger | Sahar Jaber | Indra Janda | Jessica Langerock | Ursula Novak | Carmen Osten | Daniel Pickering | Ben Rea | Filip Reumers | Diego Sanchez | Alice Sanders | Lou Terryn | Frédéric Timmermans | Maarten Vanbelle | Marthe Vandenabeele | Tania Vandenbussche | Menno Vanderghote | Ariane Van Craen | Dietlinde Verhaeghe | Tinne Verwerft | Wim Voorspoels |

Visualisations:
Thomas Hick | Frederik De Smedt

Office management:
Ilse De Sutter

Management consultancy:
Kathleen Steel - kasteel bv

Financial consultancy:
Yves Callens - Montes bv | Greta Van Belleghem - Sed Arte bv