The Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven – University of Leuven (Ghent/Brussels, Belgium) and the Chair of Architecture and Design II, AAU EiABC (Ethiopia) joined forces and work on a development project for the Merkato district in Addis Abeba. The project is part of the Streetscape Territories research project (Department of Architecture, KU Leuven – University […]

Railway communities and garbage pickers in Srei Sophon (Cambodia) A still from the international summer school during the summer of 2017. In spring 2017, the Faculty of Architecture launched a call for application for a summer school on ‘Resilient local urban development against the backdrop of large-scale transitions’ in Srei Sophon (Cambodia) and selected 10 […]

Iwo Borkowicz (laureate 2015-16) has been selected as one of the top 20 candidates to be part of Antenna during Dutch Design Week happening this October 2017 in Eindhoven. Antenna conference will take place on the 20th of October 2017 in Eindhoven between 13:30 and 17:30. Each candidate will have a maximum of 10min to share […]

  Iwo Borkowicz, graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, is one the three winners of the first edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Iwo graduated last year at Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent in the English Master of Architecture. At the faculty he was already selected as a laureate (the graduating student with the best […]

On Thursday 7 September 2017, Kortrijk Weide launched the art integration project BRICK PLAY, an artistic participation program for thinkers and creators. ‘BRICK PLAY’ is part of the PLAY exhibition, a city festival that takes place from mid 2018 in Kortrijk. Three architects of MAP13 Barcelona meet in the autumn of 2017 with inhabitants of Kortrijk, […]

Past academic year 2016-2017, around 25 students of the Master of Science in Architecture at Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, campus Sint-Lucas Ghent/Brussels, signed up to develop their master dissertation project within the Streetscape Territories research collective. The International Master of Architecture provided the opportunity to their students to work within several possible frameworks of […]

The contemporary meaning of a historical place is not always immediately visible. Seven students of the International Master of Architecture (Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent), together with lecturer Gisèle Gantois, take on the challenge of exposing the particular layering of Ieper. They make the ‘Invisible City’ tangible in the reunification of the former swimming […]

David Florez (international Master of Architecture) master’s dissertation sketch was mentioned in ArchDaily 80 Best Architecture Drawings! Congratulations! David’s sketch in the 80 Best Architecture Drawings of 2017 In previous years, ArchDaily published round-ups of our favorite images from their database of selected projects (which they will do again this winter). This year, readers were asked […]

Alina Efimovich’s (international Master of Architecture) master’s dissertation sketch was mentioned in ArchDaily 80 Best Architecture Drawings! Congratulations! Alina’s sketch in the 80 Best Architecture Drawings of 2017 In previous years, ArchDaily published round-ups of our favorite images from their database of selected projects (which they will do again this winter). This year, readers were asked […]

Master’s student Antonio Boeri’s dissertation ‘City in/for Transition’ has been awarded 2nd place in the Architectural Thesis Award 2017 in the Archistart competition ATA 2017. Last year the project had already received the Dean’s choice award by Dag Boutsen, Dean of the faculty. More info and images: https://www.archistart.net/portfolio-item/city-infor-transition/ City in/for Transition by Antonio Boeri, Promoter: […]

Final Presentation was held at Chulalongkorn University in the presence of H.E. Ambassador Phillipe Kridelka. From 24 July till 4 August 2017, the Faculties of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University and KU Leuven organised the first CU-KUL Summer School “(re)-Discovering Nan” as part of their academic cooperation. Under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Koen De Wandeler […]

OPENING 01/06/2017 – 16:30 – 18:00 EXPO 02/06/2017 – 10/08/2017 Molenbeek Town Hall: Graaf van Vlaanderenstaat 20 – Salle des Pas Perdus 1 transitional project from today to 2040 on the Weststation Brussels 15 students from the International Master of Architecture @ Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven Supervision: Dr. Petra Pferdmenges & Christopher Paesbrugghe Students: […]

Information sessions on Master dissertation 17-18 Dear future Master Dissertation students, Most of you will enroll next year for the Master Dissertation design studio. In order to provide you with all information about the way of working, the studio calendar and to inform you about the pool of possible academic promotors that can follow up […]

Turncoats is an architecture debate which serves to widen cultural discourse around architecture by challenging the conventions of debates – “Architectural debates are rubbish.We’ve all been there: a panel of similar designers with similar views taking it in turns to talk at length about their similar work – too polite, too deferential, too dull. At […]

The Dencity 2017 competition features a Special Mention for ‘Arrival Market’ by: Arnout De Schryver (International Master of Architecture 15-16, Resilient an Sustainable Strategies) ‘An Architectural intervention as an arrival infrastructure that can maintain and embrace the logics of urbnaisation in Merkato (Addis Abeba) and improves the trading, inhabiting, health and waste disposal conditions.’ Read […]