Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy (AURA) Istanbul would like to invite KU Leuven’s talented students to join AURA Summer Academy 2019 / Istanbul: Past, Present and Future. It is a month long summer program exploring Istanbul through lectures, studios and site visits. “The Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy (AURA) Istanbul invites you to its inspiring […]

  Please find here a link to the lectures Ten Principles of Ghent by Luc Eeckhout. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xj0l3bs1jatb9dj/AADlK16vgbhxl-7oEh70rJP5a?dl=0

Thammasat University (Bangkok) has awarded a Bualuang ASEAN Fellowship to Koen De Wandeler for conducting a transdisciplinary research project on “Design and Development for Urban Crises” over the next two years. The project focuses on “crises” in the broadest possible sense of the word, ranging from a natural and man-made disaster, shortages in water- or […]

  At the start of the second semester the Faculty of Architecture organises on both campuses a photo exhibition on the international initiatives for 2019. (Erasmus, summer schools, development cooperation, the NY Hub, …) More info on the international office of the faculty can be found here.

Dear students, At the start of the new semester I will offer the possibility to discuss all your questions concerning our master programme, our facilities, logistics, …. you name it, or just for some small talk.  I will be present in the Brussels study lounge on the ground floor level from 14h onwards next Monday Febr11 campus […]

An opportunity for tudents to join the Master Class ‘(Re)Defining Urban Circular Change’ with Saskia Sassen, on the 25th of February in Antwerp. We hope to welcome PhD and Master students from different faculties and universities (maximum of 30 students). Here you can find the invitation which you can forward. The students can register by following […]

  Margot Maeyaert (graduate Master Architectuur) and Francesco Ogliengo (laureate Master of Architecture) are 2 of the 12 winning students of the Archi-World Academy Awards IV! Congratulations!!! 12 students were selected from more than 1,300 entries. They are offered an internship position.  All the winners will also benefit from a huge visibility with their project […]

INTRODUCTION Chicago, the place to be for world-class, contemporary architecture. For architecture students, visiting its iconic buildings is undoubtdedly a dream rarely to become reality. Being part of a Master studio, led by Martine De Maeseneer, we couldn’t have imagined to be offered the opportunity to get so close to Chicago’s modern wonders: from Frank […]

Engagement unfolds around an immersive container installation; a programme of talks, debate and performance, hosted at the Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) from 17 January 2019. The month-long event, titled #FREESPACE, offers a South African and international audience the opportunity to discuss and engage with the concept of space from a cultural, architectural, […]

Under the leadership of the Institute for Architecture and Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein, a kick-off event on 15 and 16 November marked the start of cooperation between four leading European schools of architecture. The ERASMUS+ project “Mapping, reflecting and developing PhD by design programs” under the direction of Christoph Michels, Assistant Professor […]

This is an initiative of the international office of the Faculty of Architecture and it’s vice-dean internationalisation. What if we could change our entire Brussels campus into a study lounge ? We need your collaboration, power and ideas in order to make it work !

The Market – The City Streetscape Territories in Merkato Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2013-2018 On December 18th, at 5.30pm, we open the Streetscape Territories exhibition on Merkato, Addis Abeba at the Sint-Lucas Brussels Campus (Paleizenstraat 67) through a debate with the title “The Market, the City” with international guests Helawi Sewnet (ET), Zegeye Cherenet (ET), Gunnar […]

  The Research Seminar is set up to explore forms of adaptations within urban markets in emerging cities around the world. It is organised by the Research Group “Urban Projects, Collective Spaces & Local Identities”. It will feature ongoing research projects, PhD projects and international architecture studio projects with focus on the role of marketplaces […]

  Student Daryan Knoblauch of the International Master won a prize with his bachelor thesis project ‘Coherent Existence – 6 Typologies for Communal Urbanism (Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Alfter)’ The German Architecture Chamber (like the “Ordre des Architectes”) awarded 5 theses with the “2018 BDA-Master-Award”, a prize “handed out to the 5 Best-German-Thesis-Proposals”. […]

The website documenting the international summer school ‘Negotiating Ungers’ organized by Lars Fischer (KU Leuven) and Cornelia Escher (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf) at the Ungers Archiv fur Architekturwissenschaft in Cologne is now online: negotiating-ungers.eu The results of the summer school have been published online on both  baunetz.de and koelnarchitektur.de NEGOTIATING UNGERS The Aesthetics of Sustainability In 1980, […]