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Laura Muyldermans is the next guest in the sofa-talk series at the bar of Meurop. Laura Muyldermans established a ‘reflective practice’ in unsolicited architecture, interventions in public space, and scenography. She also calls it a mirroring practice; it is explicitly meant to inspire building practice. We will talk with Laura about all this and more. […]

The Future Proef Award is a prize (3,000 euros for the first place and 500 euros for places 2 and 3) that rewards final theses by bachelor and graduate students of a Flemish higher education institution, which address sustainable development issues. 33 final projects from KU Leuven compete for this prize. The announcement of the […]

Architect Jef Van Ranst had a dream: to get young talents to draw again. The drawing, made by hand, as an expression of a thinking, doing or design process rather than the drawing as an artistic artefact. Every year, the Jef Van Ranst Foundation searches for design drawings that visually challenge, question or express a […]

THIS YEAR’S THEME IS RE-,. RE-DESIGN. RE-CONSTRUCT. RE-FLECT. RE-LUCAS. de kleine grote selectie de kleine grote LucAs prijs / de grote kleine LucAs prijs LucAs books is a series of bilingual (nl/en) publications celebrating the beauty of design documents – drawings or plans, collages, renders or scale models – and the creative spirit of KU […]

The Academia Belgica, Centre for History, the Arts and Sciences in Rome have the pleasure to invite you to the presentation of the book “The Academia Belgica in Rome. Building for the Arts and sciences in the Eternal City” on December 4, 2023, at 5 pm at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels (Hertogstraat/Rue […]

  Congratulations to Sint-Lucas Ghent alumni Daryna Lysytska and Marcos Suelves, who share the Van Hove Prize 2023 for their outstanding graduation projects! Daryna won the prize for her project ‘Forgotten Treasure‘, from the Streetscape Territorries master studio (thesis advisor: Kris Scheerlinck). Read more. Marcos won the prize for his project ‘Stoffwechsel of Peralta de […]

The Master Thesis Project by Maria Silvia Pinte, titled “Navigating Through Shrinkage: Catalizing Change through Resilient Degrowth in Călan”, supervised by Anuschka Kutz during the Fragilities Thesis studio 2022/2023, has been recently selected for the Diploma Section exhibition at BATRA 2023, Transilvania Architecture Biennial, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The project, which dealt with a post-industrial shrinking town […]

23 november 2023 Technologiecampus Gebroeders De Smetstraat 1, 9000 Gent auditorium E036 PROGRAMMA 15u30-15u45 Verwelkoming 15u45-16u45 Kwalitatief doctoraatsonderzoek Eva Van Caudenberg, Willemien Van Damme, Jana Verstraete, Emma Volckaert en Babette Wyckaert 16u45-17u00 Intermezzo Wouter Deprez 17u00-17u50 Panelgesprek over kwalitatief onderzoek Stijn Oosterlynck, Leeke Reijnders, Griet Roets en Els Vervloesem, onder leiding van Maarten Loopmans 17u50-18u15 […]

Histories of the modern home can be written through the transformations of its material components: architectural elements, such as the door, the window or the chimney, but also furniture, like desks and sofas, appliances and electronics from sinks to televisions, and even specific items of clothing, like aprons and pyjamas, specifically designed, appropriated or reinvented […]

Op 31 augustus werd de architectuurdocumentaire ‘Leven in een ballon’ uitgezonden, over de befaamde ‘ballonwoning’ uit de jaren 70 van architect A.J. Lode Janssens. De documentaire werd gemaakt in het kader van de door Peter Swinnen en Nikolaus Hirsch gecureerde CIVA-tentoonstelling. Peter Swinnen en regisseur Bertrand Lafontaine verzamelden een unieke reeks getuigen (onder wie Janssens […]

NL De omgeving van het station van Namen is een echte toegang tot de stad, een overgangsgebied naar het historische centrum. De place Léopold (Leopoldplein) is een centrale plaats die deel uitmaakt van een ontwikkelingsproject in de stedelijke herverkavelingsperimeter onder de naam “Quartier Léopold”. Deze is op 20 juni 2022 ter goedkeuring voorgelegd aan de […]