{"id":7162,"date":"2026-04-22T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:33:37","slug":"7055-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/2026\/04\/22\/7055-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofa Talk w Johan Nielsen 29\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday, we welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/team\/members\/nielsen-johan\">Johan Nielsen<\/a> to the sofa, he is a teacher and Phd at our faculty as well as director of The Brussels-based practice manger.nielsen. His office focusses on projects \u2013both new and adaptive reuse- involving sensitive programs such as social housing, cultural spaces, youth centers, and schools.<\/p>\n<p>We will discuss the everyday and socio-economic reality of owning an architecture office -the good the bad and the ugly- before we get into the main topic of the talk of socially sensitive programs and projects of adaptive reuse. How do these two mutually reinforce each other, how to juggle a rich sociocultural and heritage context at the same time and what might that teach us?<\/p>\n<p>Through his teachings we might get a better grasp of the many different positions and conflicts an architect working today mediates between.<\/p>\n<p>29\/04\/26, 6.30 PM<br \/>\nKU Leuven, Sint-Lucas Brussels Campus, Paleizenstraat 65 \/\/ Meurop Bar<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sofatalks.arch\/\">@sofatalks.arch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday, we welcome Johan Nielsen to the sofa, he is a teacher and Phd at our faculty as well as director of The Brussels-based practice manger.nielsen. His office focusses on projects \u2013both new and adaptive reuse- involving sensitive programs such as social housing, cultural spaces, youth centers, and schools. We will discuss the everyday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,50,1,298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7212,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions\/7212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}