Interior Architecture : Our course offer for international students

In this studio the various insights and attitudes acquired in multiple previous design studios are implemented and synthesized. The acquired knowledge, skills and inventiveness of the student will be deepened and explored through a specific assignment with a defined current context of an existing site, location, building, function, innovative program and time setting … The […]

This class introduces International exchange students to both contemporary and historical Belgian interior architecture. Guided or on their own initiative, students visit a selection of projects around Belgium. The presence of either the designers or the inhabitants allows the students to discuss the project on the spot with the people who either designed or inhabit […]

How can we think the political dimension of architecture when coming close to politics is perhaps the biggest curse in the church of architecture, especially in Flanders? In the background lies the big trauma of clientelism in building production in the 20th Century. Since the 1990‐ies a critical architecture culture has been emerged from the […]

Lab(o) aims to reflect on space and design in an autonomous way.  This studio aims to collect site-specific data in order to analyze and map a chosen location. Students will reply with an intervention: an installation, made-to-measure.

Elective ‘Architecture and Art’ Reverse Perspective Architect Wim Goes and philosopher Dr. Volkmar Muhleis As research output from the ADO “Reverse Perspective” (2018-2020), Wim Goes and Volkmar Mühleis published the book Reverse Perspective (Ghent: Grafische Cel, 2020). It reflects on the art historical background of this notion from Byzantine art via cubism until contemporary art […]

The Explicit Studio aims explicate the different approaches in architectural design of interiors. The studio comes at the end of Bachelor term and is a precursor to the Master environment with a specific research design approach. Each year the theme of the Explicit Studio changes and is replaced by a new topic depending on the […]

This course focusses public and private social constructs that conceptualise different domains of everyday life – from the interiority and privacy of our bodies and homes to the publicness of city streets and public space. Public and private spaces operate at a variety of scales that overlap and intersect, creating a mosaic of spaces and […]

Keywords: Exhibit / Interdisciplinary / Communiation / Study visits Context: Exhibit/s is about (the creation of) exhibitions, in a broad theoretical and practice-related framework. An exhibition informs and seduces, amazes, creates involvement and evokes experiences. We will visit and study inspiring examples: spaces that lead the audience into a narrative. Another keyword of the course […]

Lab(o) aims to reflect on space and design in an autonomous way.  This studio aims to collect site-specific data in order to analyze and map a chosen location. Students will reply with an intervention: an installation, made-to-measure.