About

RIET EECKHOUT (M.Arch, MA, PhD) holds a post-doctoral research position at the faculty of architecture of KU Leuven (Belgium).  As a researcher she exhibits, publishes and writes about her drawings from within the discipline of architecture.  She is a guest speaker and teacher at a number of international universities and conferences where she talks on her research in relation to the practice.  Her drawings have been exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale (IT), La Gallerie d’Architecture in Paris (FR), Tchoban Foundation, Museum of architectural drawing Berlin, Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin (G), and Art Omi : Architecture, Ghent, New York (USA).

In 2014, she concluded a PhD titled ‘Process Drawing’ under Dr. Martyn Hook within the invitational Practice based Research program at RMIT University (Melbourne), led by Leon van Schaik.

Contact:     riet.eeckhout@kuleuven.be            Instagram

https://www.drawingmatter.org/drawings/sketchbooks/drawing-out-gehry/

  • upcoming exhibitions:

Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand at Art Omi
Art Omi, Newmark Gallery, Ghent, New York (USA)
co-curated by Warren James, Director, Art Omi: Architecture; and Nalina Moses.
January 11 – March 1, 2020

Drawing Out Gehry V (2019)

Single-Handedly collects original drawings from a group of accomplished contemporary architects who, in an industry dominated by digital technologies, continue to work by hand. Radically diverse in scale, materials, technique, subject, and spirit, these works overturn preconceived notions of what an architectural drawing is like. Some are dreamy, fiery and avant-garde, and others pragmatic, reductive and nostalgic. Deeply informed, but nonetheless unconstrained, by traditional architectural drafting techniques, these renderings exploit an unparallelled formal freedom. Each one contains its own world and tells its own story, rooted in personal imagination. This exhibit gives vibrant testimony to the still-vital craft of hand drawing in architecture. This exhibition is co-curated by Warren James, Director, Art Omi: Architecture; and Nalina Moses. Exhibiting Architects Architettura Matassoni, Apologue, Andrew Burdick, Anik Pearson, Anneke Vervoort, Aric Lasher, Ashwin Patel, Bishakh Som, Brad Cloepfil, Preston Scott Cohen, Brian MacKay-Lyons, Bruna Canepa, Chris Dove, Claudio Schneider, Dayton Eugene Egger, Denis Andernach, Eu Jin Lim, Frank Escher, Joyce Rosner, Karolina Kawiaka, Katie Shima, Lars Steffenson, Liesbeth van der Pol, Liz Swanson, Marie-José Van Hee, Nataliya Eliseeva, Pablo Castro, Peter Wilson, Richard Griswold, Rick Gooding, Riet Eeckhout, Sam Picardal, Stefan Davidovici, Tiffany Lin, Tom Ngo, Wendy Evans Joseph, Fernanda Canales, Anna Herringer, Jovi Cruces, Surambika Pradhan, Iza Iacinschi, Jim Taylor and Anne Ma.

EXPERIMENTAL DIAGRAMMING - Between Spatial Figuration and Abstraction Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin, Germany

Curated and organised by Lidia Gasperoni and Sarah Gretsch of the Department of Architectural Theory with Anna Hougaard. The exhibition runs from 13th December 2019 to 13th February, 2020

Exhibition manifesto : Over the last decades, the diagram has developed into a constitutive, generative medium for architectural design and has thus become an everyday word in architectural design. As a visual medium, it allows a generative translation of perceived configurations in the thinking process of architecture and vice versa. But today, in the everyday use of this word, this generative meaning of the diagram has almost disappeared and the diagram is gradually serving to produce architectural forms. The exhibition presents experimental uses of diagrams that show their performative and transformative essence.

WORKS+WORDS 2019 Biennale in Artistic Research in Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Exhibition: November 28th 2019 to January 19th 2020. KADK The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts WORKS+WORDS 2019 present artistic research within the field of architecture in Europe. Artistic research aims at developing new ground in the field of architecture and is characterised by combining the making of works with reflections in words. Artistic research is defined as an integrated part of an artistic process, which leads to a public accessible work and is accompanied by intellectual reflection on as well the process itself as the presentation of the finished work. WORKS+WORDS 2019, Biennale in Artistic Research in Architecture operates with three criteria for artistic research within the field of architecture, as defined by KADK: Clarity, Density, Depth.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Tchoban Foundation, Museum of architectural drawing, Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects (Berlin), Drawing Out Gehry II (2018)

    The sketchbooks represented are the work of Hans Poelzig, Le Corbusier, Alberto Ponis,                      Adolfo Natalini/Superstudio, Álvaro Siza, Tony Fretton, Marie-José Van Hee, Peter Märkli,                    Níall McLaughlin and Riet Eeckhout.

  • UCL, Disegno2018, Tournai, Belgium (Jan 2018) The space between his head and his two hands

  • DeSingel Arts Campus, Flanders Architecture Institute, Antwerp, Belgium (2017) Drawing Out Gehry I

  • Darc Space Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2017) The Marconi Drawings

  • Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, Time Space Existence, Venice, Italy (2014) The Venice drawings

  • COAC, The chamber of Architects of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain (2014) The space between his head and his two hands

  • Galerie d’ Architecture, Paris, France (2013) The Gate Drawings