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Championing their concept of ‘Metamorphism’, design team Kinetura hope to reinvigorate modernist architecture and design with functional forms that respond organically to their environment

article in magazine 12/2010

“Architecture and design have undergone some dramatic changes since the modernism that dominated the 20th century. The strict rationality that created those pure, functional forms has in many cases been replaced by built spaces as complex as the societies that use them. These newest expressions of human achievement are in many ways testament to advancements in computer design technology and production possibilities. For Xaveer Claerhout and Barbara van Biervliet, the couple behind architecture/design firm Kinetura, this elaborately formed architecture, while beautiful, often doesn’t in itself offer a practical solution to specific problems. For the past five years, their objective has been to bring a renewed modernism back to architecture and design with the creation of ‘modern forms – strict, severe, functional, but with a metamorphic dimension’.

Metamorphism is the credo that informs all of Kinetura’s works. A term borrowed from geology, for them it encapsulates their concept of form and function that flexes and adapts with time.”