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Master of Architecture

Welcome on the blog of the (English taught) Master of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture. With this blog we want to show and share the results of our education and nurture the process of coming-to-understand. You will find here news on events, calls, lectures related to the programme, but also the outcomes of our studios …

General info on the program and the engagements can be found on our faculty website. Check the acamedic calendar here.

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VLIR-UOS scholarships 2019-2020

Ready for an international Master’s in Flanders, Belgium? Interested in studying a development relevant master programme at a renowned University? VLIR-UOS provides scholarships for a selection of 15 international master programmes (ICP) at one of the Flemish Universities to applicants from 31 eligible countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America! The call for scholarship applications for […]

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Honours Programme, KU Leuven – Stellenbosch University, Think Tank 2019

  Call for Master’s students:   Dear student, The “KU Leuven – Stellenbosch University Think Tank” is a joint extra-curricular and multidisciplinary honours programme. We are reaching out to motivated Master’s students to engage themselves in this international project running from February – November 2019. Together with South African Master’s students – and assisted by an interdisciplinary academic team – you will elaborate […]

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Symposium and Exhibition on Vernacular Architecture in the Himalayas 22-23/11

Prof.dr.arch. Marc Dujardin will take part in the symposium Vernacular Architecture in the Himalayas: An endangered species?, 22-23 November in Berlin, combined with the opening of an exhibition on the same topic on 22 November at 6.30 pm. The symposium brings together internationally renowned experts for Himalayan and Tibetan architecture. They will present vernacular building […]

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Discover the Rondes – Barcelona. Report on the Field trip and Hackató for masterstudio BARCELONAs ROUNDS

  Discover the Rondes –Barcelona Field trip and Hackató maib14 ‘BARCELONAs ROUNDS. Infrastructures as a Tool to Explore the City’, design studio in the International Master of Science in Architecture by Cecilia Chiappini. From 17th to 23rd October students from the design studio led by Cecilia Chiappini visited Barcelona and took part of a unique […]

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INTERNATIONAL TESTIMONIES – study abroad? 12-13/11

  Do you have plans to study abroad? Join the Erasmus program next year? We have more than 90 ERASMUS destinations! Go on an intercontinental exchange? You can go to China, Japan, USA, Latin America, Canada and Australia. Participate in a development project during summer 2019? Join an international class while studying here? That is […]

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TAB 2019 Installation Programma Competition, curator Gilles Retsin

  TAB 2019 PRESS KIT INSTALLATION PROGRAMME COMPETITION MATERIAL The open two-stage competition challenges participants to develop creative designs for a temporary outdoor installation in front of the Museum of Estonian Architecture. The winning submission will be built in August and opened during the TAB Opening Week in September 2019!1st stage submission DEADLINE is November […]

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A BRAVE NEW WORLD DESIGN STUDIO

  Change is a challenging prospect as it disrupts our worlds and threatens profoundly engrained claims on livelihood, societal status, comfort, safety and security. The design studio ‘A BRAVE NEW WORLD’ is a call to cease the fear of change and to embrace it as a positive agent that enables the transition to better futures. […]

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YTAA presentations with laureate Iwo Borkowicz + conversation with Wang Shu and Paul Robbrecht

Laureate Iwo Borkowicz (2015-2016) will be among the participants in the discussion with Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) winners and participants from Europe (Poland, Germany) and Asia (Korea, China), as part of the EYCH and forthcoming ASEM Cultural Festival at BOZAR. The YTAA presentation will be followed by a debate between Chinese architect Wang Shu […]

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Conversation series ‘Who will do it?’

‘Who Will Do It?’ is a series of conversations on the potential and urgency of (architectural) education within the evolution of Brussels. For this series, PILOTBXL (KU Leuven workgroup on profiling the Brussels campus) in collaboration with CIVA brings together three duos of architectural practitioners who, through their projects and attitudes, cast a different light […]

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Lecture by Luc Eeckhout / DESIGN A RESILIENT AND REGENERATIVE FUTURE

Design a resilient and regenerative future – The ten principles of Ghent   by Luc Eeckhout Lecture 1 – Thursday 11 October – 17:00 – St-Niklaasstraat 27, 9000 Gent – 4° floor

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Exhibition / Streetscape Territories: Sustainable Development Strategies for Merkato, Addis Ababa 26-28/10

Exhibition of Multi-Stakeholder Research, Design Studios, Summer Schools and Master Dissertations on Merkato, Addis Abeba During the last academic years (2016-2018), the Streetscape Territories research practice provided a theoretical and methodological framework to formulate proposals to redevelop the Merkato area in Addis Abeba, in collaboration with EiABC and local stakeholders. Besides the proper research outcomes, […]

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International Conference ‘Cities, People and Places’ – Exhibition and Paper presentation on KUL-UOM Summer Workshop, Colombo

Exhibition and Paper presentation on KUL-UOM Summer Workshop in Slave Island, Colombo by Koen De Wandeler and Annemie Demeulemeester The exhibition shows the outputs realized during the KUL-UoM Summer Workshop Urban neighbourhood regeneration along Vauxhall Street that Koen De Wandeler and Annemie Demeulemeester conducted with local counterparts Janaka Wijesundara and Asiri Dissanayake between 25 August […]

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When alumni become our cultural Ambassadors: Didong CHEN’s master dissertation three times internationally awarded

In June 2017, ms. Didong CHEN (China) delivered her master dissertation entitled ‘HUMAN-WATER-ENVIRONMENT IMAGERY FOR THE Y-HELLING: Designing scenographies for spatial rethinking the Dutch ‘Culture of Water’ along and beyond the waterfront of the NDSM Shipyard in Amsterdam” under the supervision of prof.dr.arch. Marc Dujardin (MAIG42-arCsus Lab in close co-operation with RAAAF architects, Amsterdam). There […]

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Alumnus Magali Cleemput and Week van het Ontwerpen 2017 (Week of Designing Flanders): a flashback

With three laureates accepted to present at the annual exhibition of the ‘Flanders Design Week’ (Week van het Ontwerpen –W/0) 2018, the Faculty of Architecture ‘continues’ to radiate and publish the high standard of its graduating students. This may well be a perfect timing to report on the work of previous W/0 awarded students who […]

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Latest and last Streetscape Territories notebook published

On 20 September 2018 we release the latest notebook in the series of Streetscape Territories Notebooks (Kris Scheerlinck ed.), this time with the title “Collective Spaces Revisited”. This tenth notebook addresses the making of collective spaces on a theoretical as well as on a design level: this publication seeks to present sidenotes on the needed […]

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