Luc Deleu
Biographies Luc Deleu is a Belgian architect, urbanist and artist born in 1944 in Duffel.
Luc Deleu

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- 1944 · Duffel.
- Nationality
- Belgium
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- architect · artist · urban planner · urban designer
- Honours
- Vlaamse Cultuurprijs voor Beeldende Kunst · honorary doctorate of Hasselt University
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Biographies Luc Deleu is a Belgian architect, urbanist and artist born in 1944 in Duffel.
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Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp. Work by Luc Deleu is recorded in the collections of Design Museum Gent, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Middelheim Museum and Van Abbemuseum. Distinctions recorded are Vlaamse Cultuurprijs voor Beeldende Kunst and honorary doctorate of Hasselt University.
• Illustration — "The Container" artwork in Brussels Luc Deleu is a Belgian architect and urban planner residing in Antwerp. In 1969, he completed his architectural degree, creating T.O.P. office in 1970 to question the role of architecture and urbanism in the modern age. His utopian projects put emphasis on mobility instead of the immobility of real estate, focusing on using urban space in a more efficient and intensive manner. In 1980, he created the Orban Planning Manifesto, which for the first time, places emphasis on the responsibilities of architecture and building on a global scale. Notable projects include: Proposal to use existing rockets to fire (nuclear) waste at the sun (1975), School of Perspective and the Station Europa Centraal (1988-1989), VIP City (1999-2004). In 2006, a new work called Urban Space insists on increasing population density without trying to define functions. From 1999 to 2002, the Petuel tunnel in Munich was equipped with extraction units. Deleu presented a steel chimney as a multifunctional structure (antenna installations). Since 2000, the work of Luc Deleu is more and more exhibited in contemporary art context.

Luc Deleu, 'Construction X'. On display in Arthur's Quay Park, Limerick, Republic of Ireland for international exhibition EV+A 1994. Large-scale outdoor installation made from shipping containers in the shape of the letter X.
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Luc Deleu - Orbino - 2004 - Middelheimmuseum
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1944
Luc Deleu born at Duffel.
2007
Speybank is dated 2007.
2013
The Container is dated 2013.
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