Architecture workroom Brussels

Architecture workroom Brussels

Architecture Workroom Brussels is a cultural innovation house for the transformation of the social and physical living environment. The organisation's mission is to enable the transition to a solidarity-based, sustainable and circular urban landscape by means of design and architecture. It supports the development of new projects, coalitions and practices that provide solutions to tomorrow's important societal challenges, related to themes such as food, water, energy, mobility, housing and community. 

The innovation house uses design and culture as levers to achieve its mission. Spatial and design research play a major role in exploring and imagining possible futures. But AWB goes further than simply placing the options on the agenda. The cultural innovation platform plays a connecting role with regard to new coalitions, projects and practices, resulting in effective transformation in the living environment. 

To this end, AWB brings both innovators and the current dominant players together in a new practice environment. AWB provides the context and the tools for designers, local organisations, supralocal authorities and knowledge institutions to devise concrete, conceivable and achievable answers to the pertinent questions of our time.

Prof. dr. Joachim DECLERCK

Joachim Declerck graduated from Ghent University as an engineer-architect. He later attended the international postgraduate course at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He remained at this institute from 2005 to 2010, where he led the professional research and development programme from 2008. On behalf of the Berlage Institute, he was co-curator of the 3rd IABR, Power - Producing the Contemporary City (2007) and of the exhibition A Vision for Brussels - Imagining the Capital of Europe (2007).

Prof. Roeland Dudal

Roeland Dudal (1977) is founder and partner of Architecture Workroom Brussels (AWB)- European think-and-do tank for innovation in architecture, urban and territorial development. He studied architecture at Ghent University. From 2001 to 2003, he was coordinator of the urban debate platform Studio Open Stad (Brussels). From 2004 to the end of 2009, he was active as project leader for the Flemish Architecture Institute (Antwerp).