Bartók in Space and Time

Béla Bartók’s music meets Robbrecht en Daem’s architecture – a rare dialogue between space and time

Bartók in Space and Time captures a unique encounter between architecture and music, between space and time, referring to an experimental evening at Bozar, Brussels. Led by conductor Gábor Káli, Flanders Symphony Orchestra performed Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1937), while Robbrecht en Daem architecten mirrored this music into architectural bodies. The dialogue between these two disciplines is illustrated and explained by drawings, calculations, images, sources of inspiration and notes, including an analysis by Mark Delaere, expert in 20th-century music.

Founded in 1975, Robbrecht en Daem architecten has since built up a unique body of work renowned on an international level. Paul Robbrecht, Hilde Daem and Johannes Robbrecht always strive for that extraordinary space, that unforgettable place. Their architecture is never antagonistic but always engaged in a dialogue with the users, with the surrounding context, with history, with artists.