Congratulations to our graduates Suzan VERCAEMPST (A house for the mind) and Behar NEZIRAJ (Obscure productions – Unveiling the Stuttgart industrial image) on winning the honorable mentions of the Van Hove Prize! Also among the faculty’s nominees: Iulia ILIE (Architectures of Transition), Alonso VAN OORSCHOT (Loods 26_Productive Urban Hub), Rita ROZNAR (No-Longer / Not-yet, Temporary […]

Rural Postcards is an art project by photographer Giaime Meloni and architect Sabrina Puddu (Marie S. Curie fellow) at the Faculty of Architecture at KU Leuven. The project focuses on the prison of Ruiselede and involved the inmates and staff in an exchange of postcards. During the ‘National Days of Prison’ (at the Huis van […]

LUCA School of Arts and the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture will organize the ELIA Academy 2021 in May 2021. This activity of the European League of Institutes of the Arts aims, with mainly interactive methods, to focus on the development and innovation of higher art and architecture education. It is an event where novelties and […]

Everyone’s welcome to join us for Going Public lecture #36 ‘House and Garden’ by Tom de Paor, on Thursday 25 November 6 pm, introduced by Jo Van Den Berghe in the Legacy engagement. Tom de Paor is an architect who lives and works at Desert, a house and garden comprised of various reclaimed buildings and […]

Photo: Niederrhein-Kolleg © Bertrand Cavalier, 2020 (website/instagram) During the summer school ‘Negotiating Ungers: The Construction of Communities’ at the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft in Cologne (July 2019), the project of German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers was analyzed with students from the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Following the summer school, nine […]

LUCA School of Arts, Sint-Lukas library Paleizenstraat 70, 1030 Brussels Lotte Van den Audenaeren makes work in progress: word images, light projections and audio. time-based materials, light, sound & language are used to investigate transformation & solidification, in order to locate current scenarios & future possibilities. ‘Lotte Van den Audenaeren makes works that illuminate the […]

PRIMARY TALKS is a lecture series initiated by the architecture master studio PRIMARY STRUCTURE in the Faculty of Architecture. Within the context of the studio we invite speakers form different disciplines who’s work is relevant within the theme. The focus of the lecture series is on the working method, the way the work comes to […]

Going Public lecture #35: Tomas Ooms (curator Craftsmanship) and Karel Deckers (programme director of Interior Architecture) present an online lecture by Theo De Meyer on Thursday 18 November. Please register on https://bit.ly/theodemeyer in order to receive the Zoom link. Architect Theo De Meyer lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. De Meyer moves between architecture, design […]

Save the dates! Going Public #35 18/11, 17.30: Theo De Meyer (engagement Craftsmanship, curated by Tomas Ooms and the master of Interior Architecture) https://bit.ly/theodemeyer More info Going Public #36 25/11, 18.00: Tom de Paor (engagement Legacy, curated by Jo Van Den Berghe) https://bit.ly/tomdepaor More info Going Public #37 2/12, 17.30: Leilani Farha (engagement Urban Cultures, […]

Everyone is welcome to join the webinars organised in the frame of the Faculty of Architecture’s ‘Urban Cultures’ engagement. Coordination by Martino Tattara. All lectures via Zoom. Please find the links below. 11th October 2020, 13h30 SANTIAGO DEL HIERRO (ETH Zurich) and GUILLERMO PRESSIANI (Universidad de Piura, Perú) Transnational corridors and local conditions in the Andes […]