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On Thursday 22 October PAF (Platform voor Architectuur & Feminisme) and the Faculty of Architecture come together for an evening about Collective Care in Design Education. This conversation is the first in a series of travelling conversations organised by PAF in collaboration with architecture and design schools across Flanders and Brussels. Together, we explore how a feminist and […]

Welcome to the lecture by Eagles of Architecture (BE) “No Inventions But Interventions” Tuesday 13/10/’26, 6.30 PM Alexianenplein 1, 9000 Ghent (Auditorium A4) Please register here. Eagles of Architecture makes drawings and works on projects out of a desire to play rather than out of a sense of entrepreneurship. For each design it develops a set of […]

Welcome to the lecture by Wim Goes (BE) “Potential Shifts” Tuesday 27/10/’26, 6.30 PM Alexianenplein 1, 9000 Ghent (Auditorium A4) Please register here. Wim Goes is a practicing architect and leads Wim Goes Architectuur, founded in 1999. Their work has been published widely in international architectural magazines such as A+U (JP), the Architectural Review (UK), Mark Magazine (NL), D’Architectures (FR), […]

Chronografictie is een speculatieve verkenning, geïnitieerd door de Faculteit Architectuur KU Leuven, gericht op toekomstscenario’s voor ontwerponderwijs. Het project bevat een verzameling observaties, vraagstellingen en verbeeldingen die uitnodigen tot reflectie en actie. Het project concludeert met twee gespiegelde tafelsettings op de Brusselse en Gentse campus, waar er gedurende 20 opeenvolgende dagen middaggesprekken georganiseerd worden tussen […]

NL Ter gelegenheid van zijn 100ste geboortedag zetten Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum (MDD), vzw Juliaan Lampens en het Vlaams Architectuurinstituut de gerenommeerde architect Juliaan Lampens in de kijker. Op 5 november 2026 wordt in MDD een symposium georganiseerd, gevolgd door een tentoonstelling die loopt van 29 november 2026 tot 14 maart 2027. Tijdens deze periode worden ook […]

Everyone is welcome to attend the ‘Sofa talks’ at our Brussels campus, where the sofa itself provides an intimate setting for critical conversations on architecture. Save the dates for the upcoming season! Check out our program and make sure to mark those dates in your calendar. when? ~ On Wednesdays at 18:30 where? ~ Paleizenstraat […]

Welcome to our Going Public / November Talks lecture series, curated by Riet Eeckhout and Thierry Lagrange. Venue: Auditorium A4, Alexianenplein Gent This semester the faculty collaborates for a second time with the Sto Stiftung for the November Talks, an international event that also takes place in Madrid, Paris, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice and Vienna. The lectures are free […]

What if the tuning scene, with its rituals and lore, its heroes and hacks, is just architecture with better sound design? After a curious, critical, and collective ride through Brussels parking garages, we gather for a double dose of film and print. Beursschouwburg, Auguste Ortsstraat 20/28, 1000 Brussel 3 October 2026, 10:00 (Dérive) and 20:00 […]

GROUNDED FABULATIONS International Research Seminar– 1 & 2 October 2026 On the 1st and 2nd of October 2026, a series of (research-)artefacts, (research-)events, and (research-) educational environments will unravel, inviting for your imagination. The international Research Seminar will be fostered by the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture’s research cells Architecture & Wicked Matters + Radical Materiality & Luca School of Arts’ […]

International Methodological Workshop On 2 October, research cells Architecture & Wicked Matters and Radical Materiality are organising an international methodological workshop on Ficto-Criticism. (part of the research seminar Grounded Fabulations). Led by Prof. Hélène Frichot, the workshop is open to PhD researchers in architecture and related disciplines who are interested in, or already experimenting with, creative writing methodologies […]

It is with great sadness that we announce that Professor Harold Fallon (°1977), ir. Architect, PhD, co-founder of the architectural firm AgwA in Brussels, professor in the field of architecture and design at KU Leuven and Dean’s Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University New York, passed away on Monday 20 July 2026. After his PhD […]

Congratulations to all graduates! Pictures of the proclamations are available on our Flickr page. Theses will soon be available in the Limo catalogue GHENT: Laureate Master of Architecture (Ghent): Laura Fröeschle Laureaat Master in de interieurarchitectuur (Gent): Maaike De Groote Laureaat Master in de architectuur (Gent): Mona Barber Laureaat Master in de stedenbouw en de ruimtelijke planning (Gent): Kobe Verbeeck […]

Congratulations to Jeanne Autran-Edorh who has been named a laureate of the ‘Europe 40 under 40 Architecture and Design Award’ for 2026, receiving this recognition through her work with Studio NEiDA – a practice established in 2023 across Brussels, Berlin and Lomé (Togo). In addition to her work in Studio NEiDA, Jeanne teaches at KU Leuven Faculty […]

Met grote droefheid melden we dat Gideon Boie (°1975), architect-filosoof, medeoprichter van het collectief BAVO en gastprofessor architectuurkritiek aan de Faculteit Architectuur van de KU Leuven, op woensdag 20 mei 2026 is overleden. Als sterk gerespecteerd architectuurcriticus schreef hij talrijke artikels en opiniestukken voor het tijdschrift A+ Architecture in Belgium en maakte hij deel uit […]