Du 23.09.2025
au 04.12.2025
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Our current situation is forcing us to fundamentally rethink the way we design, intervene and live in our communities. In this context, new approaches are emerging, driven by innovative ideas that are transforming the architectural project .

For several years now, architectural practice has been moving away from the traditional figure of the architect as the central author. It is now evolving towards a more open, fluid and collaborative field, where the blending of knowledge and practices, and synergy, come into play at every stage of a project’s development.
Transdisciplinarity, whilst it has always existed, now takes on a singular resonance. This cycle highlights architects who work by pooling and reconsidering their practices.

It is not a question of complementing or juxtaposing skills, but of profoundly transforming the practice of architecture itself, so that the project emerges from a collective movement. Whether technical, political, artistic or ethical, this approach translates into a multifaceted openness and collaboration with engineers, craftspeople, artists, historians, teachers, publishers and designers. The architectural project thus becomes an open, fluid territory, traversed by multiple influences, where hybridisation and collaboration play a central role.

The About authorship & collaborations cycle is an invitation to discover an architecture in motion, capable of uniting and reinventing itself in a climate of uncertainty, and which draws on a multiplicity of viewpoints to propose alternative ways of inhabiting the world.

Guest

Tuesday 23 September at 1pm
Dispositions with AgwA and Filip Dujardin, photographer

The discussion between AgwA and photographer Filip Dujardin marks the opening of the Paris leg of Dispositions, an adaptation of the monographic exhibition devoted to the work of Brussels-based architecture firm AgwA, produced by A+ Architecture in collaboration with Bozar.
Exhibition opening at 12 noon.

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The conversation will be preceded by the opening of AGWA’s exhibition

Tuesday, 7 October, 1
La mémoire recomposée with Pierre Hebbelinck (architect and publisher) and Joseph Abram (architect and historian)

The conference will bring together three speakers: Auguste Perret, a major figure in modern architecture, Joseph Abram, historian and architect, and Pierre Hebbelinck, architect and publisher.

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Tuesday 14 October at 1
"Lost in Translation?" with Klaas De Rycke (structural engineer, BOLLINGER+GROHMANN) and Amin Taha (architect)

The lecture "Lost in Translation?" will explore the intersection of art, architecture, and structural design, highlighting the role of the structural engineer as a translator and interpreter.

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Tuesday, 21 October at 1
Designing in Reverse (FR-EN) with Alice Babini + Raf Geysen (architects, BABINI GEYSEN) and Tiphaine Abenia (research engineer-architect)

How can we design in times of scarcity and uncertainty? This conference calls for a profound change in the way we design and build, a change that sometimes involves working backwards.
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Tuesday, 4 November, 1
Architects and publishing artists, with Sophie Dars + Carlo Menon (ACCATTONE) and Pierre Leguillon (artist, Brussels)

Conceived as a conversation between collaborators and partners, the conference explores the role of the editor as a creative and critical stance in architectural and artistic practice.

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Tuesday, 25 November, 1
Zero sequences with Eric Chevalier + Anne Masson (textile designers, CHEVALIER MASSON) and Simon Givelet (research architect)

This is a conference on trans-disciplinary thermal research-action involving architecture, engineering, textile design, history and sociology, combining academic and bibliographical research, reversible prototyping and in situ analysis.

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Tuesday, 2 December at 7pm
with Paul Robbrecht (architect, ROBBRECHT EN DAEM) and Christiane Lange (art historian)

Christiane Lange and Paul Robbrecht have worked together on three projects related to the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

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Series curators

Anne Klépal is an architect and associate lecturer in TPCAU at Ensa Paris-Est. She teaches project design on the Transformation master’s programme. In 2022, she and her partner Thomas Roche founded Ressources Architectes, based in Paris and Lyon.

Philippe Vander Maren is an architectural engineer who began his career with the practices of Pierre Hebbelinck and Charles Vandenhove in Liège, where he worked until 2002. He then founded his own firm, where he developed a practice open to interdisciplinary collaboration, including artists and scenographers. His work focuses on territorial and urban regeneration and transformation projects.
Since 2024, he has been teaching on the Transformation master’s programme at Ensa Paris-Est.