Pierre Hebbelinck (architect and publisher) and Joseph Abram (architect and historian)

mardi 07 octobre 2025
à 13:00
Conférence
Amphithéâtre

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.
Discussions will focus on a range of issues: what tools does history make available to contemporary practice? What place should be given to intangible heritage and unconstructed theoretical design? How can we understand the dynamics of invention in Perret's work? What status should be given to the architectural object as such, and how can its future be understood in terms of heritage? Finally, how can theoretical knowledge be applied to concrete projects?
These questions will form the basis of a dialogue between Pierre Hebbelinck and Joseph Abram. Through the project to transform the halle Perret (a project carried out in association with Atelier Hart Berteloot and artist Pierre Toby), they will show us how the meeting of two disciplines can give rise to a project. A project built from intellectual pieces, assembled on the basis of a narrative, a vision: the construction of a thought, with the ambition of offering a tool at the service of society.

A 1981 graduate of the Institut Lambert Lombard, Pierre Hebbelinck founded his architectural studio in 1982 in Liège, where he combines his work as an architect, lecturer and publisher. In 2004, he founded Editions Fourre-Tout, which publishes works on architectural approaches and their political and poetic dimensions on the European continent. Among the architectural studio's achievements, we find this appetite for diversity of programs and scales: public facilities (the MAC's -Musée des Arts Contemporains- in Grand Hornu (Baron Horta prize 2005), the Manège theaters in Mons -European Cultural Capital- and Liège, the Centre Pompidou in Maubeuge, Bozar and the Bains du Centre in Brussels...), urban planning, family homes, museography, furniture...

An architect and historian, Joseph Abram** has taught at ENSA Nancy and the University of Geneva's Institute of Architecture. As part of the Laboratoire d'Histoire de l'Architecture Contemporaine, he has carried out research on twentieth-century architecture, in particular on the rationalist tradition in France and the renewal of practices after the Second World War. He was responsible for Le Havre's application for inclusion on the World Heritage List (classified in 2005).

Cycle
Proposed by architects and teachers Anne Klépal and Philippe Vander Maren, the Tuesday Lessons cycle About authorship & collaborations explores architecture as a collective and transdisciplinary practice, where hybridization and multiple collaborations profoundly redefine the making of the project and our ways of inhabiting the world.