newsflash

Dennis Pohl Appointed New Director of the Flanders Architecture Institute

As of 1 April 2024, Dr Dennis Pohl will start as the new director of the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi). In a period of transition until 1 June 2024, he will collaborate closely with current director Dr Sofie De Caigny, before fully assuming this role. Concurrently, Pohl will conclude his engagement as a postdoctoral researcher at the TU Delft Design, Data and Society Group (DDS). In his vision as director, Dennis Pohl is determined to focus on three areas: activating the archives, promoting cross-disciplinary artistic cooperation and anchoring the VAi even more in an international network.

The Flanders Architecture Institute team congratulates Dennis Pohl and warmly welcomes him on board.

find out more

©Severin Malaud

Exhibition

As Found exhibition in London open for visitors

09.02.2024 > 19.04.2024 | Europe House | London

From 9 February to 19 April at the 12 Star Gallery, you can admire eight experimental projects by Flemish and Brussels architects that look at the existing built environment as a starting point. On the occasion of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Flanders Architecture Institute is organising an exhibition in collaboration with the Delegation of Flanders (Embassy of Belgium) in the United Kingdom and the European Parliament Liaison Office in the UK.

Lecture / congress

Emily Wickham (Assemble) about as found architecture

05.03.2024 | DE SINGEL, Antwerp

On 5 March Emily Wickham of the London-based collective Assemble opens Atelier As Found, an exhibition of student works from Flanders and Brussels focusing on adaptive reuse. Wickham will share projects of Assemble and ideas behind them, with regards to dealing with the existing.

Het Steen © Kim Zwarts

Lecture / congress

As Found in Vienna

11.03.2024 | TU Wien, Austria

On 11 March at TU Wien Belgian architects An Fonteyne (noA), Bart Hollanders (Eagles of Architecture) and Els Van Meerbeek (Carton123) will share their contemporary positions from Flanders on how to deal with the adaptive reuse of existing buildings.

As Found © VAi

More news

More activities

Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 155
2018 Antwerp, Belgium
info@vai.be
T +32 (0)3 242 89 70

Partners

This free newsletter is being published by the Flanders Architecture Institute. It is allowed to forward this newsletter to people who are interested. You receive this newsletter because you showed interest in the activities of the Flanders Architecture Institute or because an acquaintance forwarded it to you. In order to assemble this newsletter reliable sources were being used. The publisher is not responsible for any improper use of re-use by a third party. The Flanders Architecture Institute is not responsible for the display of any incorrect information. The Flanders Architecture Institute has the right to publish or not publish the announced information. The Flanders Architecture Institute forwards the available information, but doesn't claim any completeness.