In a world where the visual reigns supreme, the Belgian projects in Venice (2018) actually succeed in undermining that hegemony. The viewer is indeed presented with images, but above all with an invitation to explore at their own pace and form their own impression.

Flemish architecture is all the rage. We’ve known this for a while, mainly thanks to the international (and in particular the German-language) press. As early as 2014, *Bauwelt* expressed its appreciation for Antwerp’s bottom-up, ‘acupuncture-style’ urban planning. A year later, Archplus published a special issue entitled ‘Normcore’, which highlighted the subtle twists on the everyday found in a number of Flemish architectural practices. L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui will also soon be publishing an issue dedicated to Belgian architecture, highlighting the subtleties of striking a balance between daring and mastery through the work of firms such as V and Baukunst.