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Curator's Statement: Bureau Bas Smets. Landscapes
Landscapes shows how landscape design in Flanders, ‘a land without a landscape’, had a decisive effect on Bureau Bas Smets. This first retrospective is based on a theory regarding the firm’s methods and study of historical landscape design. The seven stages of the design process are shown on the basis of seven projects that vary in scale and nature. Aerial photos, maps, isometric diagrams, sections, drawings and miniatures: the final results of each stage of the design are displayed in a well-considered arrangement in the exhibition room...