Luc Deleu book launch at Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (BE)

Keteleer Gallery is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book FOUNDER’S CHOICE by Luc Deleu & T.O.P. office on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM in the library of the Collection Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (BE). The event will take place alongside Luc Deleu’s Orbino (2004), an installation composed of five shipping containers.
Founder’s Choice, compiled by architect Luc Deleu (b. 1944), is the first comprehensive, richly illustrated, and large-scale overview of the activities of T.O.P. office, founded in 1970. In ten thematically and chronologically structured chapters, the book presents a body of work that is as versatile and elusive as it is coherent. From completed buildings to competition proposals, from small-scale interventions to global concepts – this book invites the reader to reflect on humanity’s spatial presence on Earth and to discover meaning and direction in it through art and architecture.
Together with T.O.P. office, Luc Deleu spent over half a century building an architectural and artistic oeuvre across a variety of media. At the same time, he critically reflected on his own practice as well as on the role of architecture and urban planning in general. As both reader and writer, he searched for the words to clarify and substantiate his position, resulting in a unique body of texts. Luc Deleu: A Reader brings together his most important texts, lectures, and articles for the first time – from the Orbanist Manifesto (1980) to Darling Springs: A Call for Beauty (2024). The book opens with a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nico Dockx, and Luc Deleu.
 

Founder’s Choice – 528 pages & Luc Deleu: A Reader – 144 pages
Two-volume hardcover edition in slipcase – 672 pages, English language, HOPPER&FUCHS

Program:
11:00 AM – Welcome by Sara Weyns, Director of the Middelheim Museum
Panel discussion with:
Luc Deleu, artist and architect
Christophe Van Gerrewey, writer and art & architecture critic, editor of Founder’s Choice
Bruno Devos, publisher HOPPER&FUCHS
Pieter Boons, curator Middelheim Museum, moderator
12:00 PM – Book signing and reception

 

PRE-ORDER the book HERE.

Jun 12, 2025