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 Award! 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 […]

What exactly is cultural heritage? How can we better understand, preserve and appreciate this heritage? And how does it contribute to our wellbeing and sustainable development? These are only some of the questions that will be featured in HERKUL, the interdisciplinary KU Leuven Institute for Cultural Heritage. Read more

GOING PUBLIC Lecture Series #19 part of the Legacy engagement, curated by Gisèle Gantois INES WEIZMAN The Microhistory of Macrocartography: Modernism Across the Sykes-Picot line Wednesday 02/12/2020, 17h30 – 19h00 ONLINE (please register on https://bit.ly/weizman in order to receive the lecture link) This talk will look at architecture on both sides of the infa-mous Sykes-Picot […]

GOING PUBLIC Lecture Series #18: ROTOR DC Mechanics of Rejuvenation Wednesday 25/11/2020, 17h30 – 19h00 ONLINE (please register on https://bit.ly/rotordc in order to receive the lecture link) Deconstruction and reuse are not only about a sort of art of destruction; they are also about the art of regeneration which includes several stages of adjustments necessary […]

The Faculty of Architecture invites you to attend the GOING PUBLIC (online) lecture #17, part of the Craftsmanship engagement curated by Tomas Ooms: MECHTHILD STUHLMACHER At home at school About projects for schools and other public living rooms Introduction by Karen Kesteloot Wednesday 18/11/2020, 17h30 – 19.00 on Zoom. Everyone is welcome to join! We […]

The design challenges in care architecture are many. The generic typology of the bed house trickles down too easily in whatever care program. New spatial settings are needed to avoid the sometimes necessary separation ending up in segregation. Not to forget the importance of the interior to do away with the old atmosphere of the […]

Thursday 12 November 2020, 12h00 Sophie Leemans (KU Leuven) Rethinking the dispersed city paradigm by exploring its networks. Insights on the way strategical nodes can shape the next urban constellation Click here for the Zoom link In the binary opposition of city and land, spatial dispersion is often considered the unwanted “spillover” effect of urbanisation. However, the […]

In Fall 2020, the Flanders Architecture Institute will be exhibiting the work of two young architectural firms with offices in both Belgium and Japan as part of the Back from Japan theme. SUGIBERRY, founded by Mayu Takasugi and Johannes Berry (2016), works out of both Brussels and Tokyo. Schenk Hattori works out of both Antwerp […]

In collaboration with Samenlevingsopbouw Brussel, Vandereyt construction company and KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture researchers and students have designed a temporary housing concept project which is currently getting realized in Molenbeek. The co-design for the pilot setup was made last year by student Vitor Breder as part of the ELB2 elective “Altering Practices for Urban […]

Asli Eylem Kolbas’s Master Dissertation (‘Macbeth (f) Exploring the Possibilities of Polykatoikia as (Gradient) Public Interior, Master of Architecture 2019) was selected for the Mamut Art Project exhibition in Istanbul. Watch Asli’s presentation here. Aslı Eylem Kolbaş transposes the modernist architecture movement in the first half of the 20th century with Shakespeare’s Macbeth in her series of […]