On Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 May 2019, Josaph’Aire will launch the FAIRE Festival on the Josaphat site (not the park!) in Schaerbeek. Josaph’Aire is a non-profit organisation that gathers various citizen initiatives that came into action on and around the Josaphat site. The aim is to broaden knowledge and skills on how Brussels […]

You are all kindly invited to an open meeting with professor Jo Van Den Berghe, the program director of the International Master program in Architecture that is scheduled on Monday 29 April 2019 at 4PM in the auditorium campus Brussels. The meeting follows the ‘Assemblea‘ event of last September, and  is part of a series […]

Lecture by Cathelijne Nuijsink / Talk About Houses in Japan – Architects’ Attitudes after the Neoliberal Turn 24/04 The masterstudio and Academic Design Office Homes for Brussels / Homes for Flanders presents a lecture by Cathelijne Nuijsink. Cathelijne Nuijsink is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow at the Institute for History and Theory (gta) at ETH […]

Camping or Colonising? A seminar on design challenges in dispersed urban configurations. Research unit All City/All Land, part of the research group Urban Projects, Collective Spaces and Local Identities, KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture. Large parts of the (West-) European territory have a dispersed character. The research cell All City/All Land (AC/AL) explores the potentials […]

Reconsidering the Urban Condition of Karm El-Zeitoun The School of Architecture and Design of the Lebanese American University (LAU), in Beirut, in collaboration with the School of Architecture La Salle, Barcelona, Spain, organize the fourth OIKONET international workshop that will take place at LAU, Beirut campus, from June 29th thru July 6th 2019. The workshop […]

The exhibition Rooms explores the domestic space via its simplest manifestation: a room. Taking this as a starting point, Dogma (Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara) presents the results of two distinct lines of enquiry: The Room of One’s Own, which focuses on the history and function of the private room, and Loveless, which charts the […]

OBSERVATIONS, POSITIONS, ACTIONS …ON BUILDING HOUSING IN HELSINKI Lecture by Tuomas Toivonen NOW for Architecture and Urbanism Tuomas Toivonen is an architect, educator and public sauna operator working in Helsinki. He is a co-founder of NOW for Architecture and Urbanism, New Academy and Kulttuurisauna. A main focus of his recent work via NOW has been […]

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

Every year the faculty (in cooperation with Masterclass) organises a NEXT event for our graduating master students. This year, there will be an event on Tuesday 26 February in Brussels and on Thursday 28 February in Ghent. BRUSSELS: Infosessions by specialists about the possibilities after obtaining your diploma at our faculty. A taste of the […]

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 […]