In this competition, five Dezeen readers can win a signed copy of a book featuring major built works by Belgian architect Julien De Smedt, as well as ideas that "fell by the wayside".
The 328-page Built Unbuilt spans 16 years of De Smedt's career, which includes a stint at Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA and running a studio with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, prior to establishing his practice JDS Architects.
Above: Dezeen is giving away five copies of Built Unbuilt. Top image: Faaborg Harbour Bath by JDS Architects, Urban Agency and Creo Arkitekter
The soft-cover book from Frame Publishers is split into two parts. The first half focuses on the architect's completed projects, like the Gateway office tower Hangzhou, a colourful youth centre in Lille and a housing block covered in cascading cubes in Seoul, with images by Belgian photographer Julien Lanoo. The book includes a mix of Julien De Smedt's conceptual designs and built works, including "The Iceburg" housing in Aarhus
The second section documents De Smedt's incomplete designs in drawings, with commentary from the architect. Although describing this section as an "architectural cemetery", De Smedt says the conceptual designs are equally important to his career.
"At a time when ideology and idealism is being challenged more than ever the realm of ideas and concepts as a possible path to progress is worthy of exploration, revisiting and even recovering those beams of optimism which, even if t...