In 2000, Vincent Callebaut, 23 years old, graduated with the Great Architecture Prize René Serrure awarding the best diploma project at the Institute Victor Horta in Brussels for its Parisian project « Metamuseum of Arts and Civilisations » Quay Branly.
Then, thanks to the bursary Leonardo da Vinci attributed by the European Community, he decided to live in Paris to extend its critical thinking and its spatial inventiveness during two years of internship in agencies that fascinate him (Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes, Massimiliano Fuksas).
In 2001, he competed in box and won the Grand Architecture Prize Napoléon Godecharle of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels awarding the best hope of the Belgian architecture with its ecological project « Elasticity, an aquatic city of 50 000 inhabitants entirely autonomous». The jury appreciated at the same time « his dynamism, his expression force and the coherence of his concept » and recognised « a personality endowed with a remarkable aptitude giving well-founded expectations of great success and able thus to contribute to the fact that reputation of Belgium becomes a truth ».

This was a great start for this incredible architect. Of course, his awards and recognitions are numerous and I will not add them here cause they would distract your attention. Vincent is known for his eco vision. The way that he combines nature and raw concrete and steel is incredible. The results are at least magnificent.

Physalia

Dragonfly

Lilypad

AntiSmog

The perfumed jungle

Ecomic

Master plan for Vatnsmyri airfield site

The red baobab

Fields in fields

Landscript

The eye of the storm

Sensuous geographics

Sensual attraction

The fractured monolith

The attol below the ocean’s level

The urban corset

Ecocoon for recycling

Liquid skin