In 2023, A will celebrate its 50th anniversary! To mark this occasion, each issue will offer a unique glimpse into our rich magazine archive, featuring a reprint of an old article that ties in with the theme of the current issue. This time, we look back at A 77: Welke plaats voor de jonge architektuur? (What place for young architecture?), from September 1982.

In the late summer of 1982, an orange deckchair in a bright green garden graces the cover of A. Apart from a few yellow flowers, the garden is completely empty, a metaphor for the vacuum into which Belgian architecture had fallen in the late 1970s. It was precisely in this void that A set itself the task of sharpening the debate on architecture by presenting the work of twenty young architects under the heading: ‘What place for young architecture (sic)?’