Bas Smets

Bas Smets
Bas Smets

Nominated

Bas Smets, a landscape architect with an office in Brussels, is nominated for the Schelling Architecture Award 2024. He is a seeker of an understanding of the city based on ecology. Smets, who trained in Leuven and Geneva and then worked with Michel Desvigne in Paris, pursues a new understanding of landscape planning in his work.
According to Smets, many things need to be rethought. Landscape planning can play a pioneering role. Smets’ aim is to generate spaces in local urban environments that can be used for longer periods of the year in terms of climate and that are at the same time more resident-friendly.
How closely will landscape planning and urban development have to cooperate in future? Bas Smets believes in the need for
‘biospheric urbanism’. Smets has shown how this can be realised in Arles in the area surrounding Frank Gehry’s Luma Museum.