Tacit + Explicit Knowledge

Klaas De Rycke (engineer, BOLLINGER+GROHMANN) and Amin Taha (architect)

mardi 14 octobre 2025
à 13:00
Conférence
Amphithéâtre

The "Lost in Translation? conference explores the intersection between art, architecture and structural design, highlighting the role of the design engineer as translator and interpreter. He must link ideas and disciplines - structural design, art and architecture - an essential skill for creating exceptional, artistic, experimental installations or innovative pavilions, where conventional solutions must be surpassed. The conference will show how cutting-edge methods, tools and models serve as catalysts for applied research, and how these achievements translate into large-scale architectural projects and their complexities.

Klaas De Rycke joined Bollinger+Grohmann in 2003 in Frankfurt, then moved to Paris in 2005 to work with Dominique Perrault on the Mariinskiy Theatre. In 2007, he founded the Paris office, which today employs some 50 people, and since 2015 has also headed the Brussels office. Klaas is also a partner in Bollinger+Grohmann Holding AG. As an engineer-architect by training, he is responsible for and adept at complex structural and facade concepts. An author and lecturer, he regularly publishes internationally in addition to his position as Associate Professor at ENSA-Versailles and Visiting Professor at UCL-Bartlett School in London.

Amin Taha is an architect and currently teaches full-time in the Faculty of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London, as well as being a visiting professor at Yale and Harvard in the USA, and in the Faculty of Engineering at University College London. He is Chairman of GROUPWORK architects, an employee-owned trust of architects that has been shortlisted three times for the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Stirling Prize. The studio is known for its innovative use of low-carbon materials reflecting the tectonic integration and definition of architecture and cultural context. Amin is also a trustee of the Sir John Soane Museum, chairman of its annual Soane Medal, and sits on the sustainability advisory boards of two property funds

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.