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Doors open 18:45  |  Lecture starts 19:00  |  Free

Architectural Practice is a lecture series inviting exemplary practices from across the globe to share their ongoing body of work. For this installment of the series we will host the Belgian practice GAFPA. 

GAFPA was established in 2008 by architects Floris De Bruyn (1982), Philippe De Berlangeer (1980) and Frederick Verschueren (1980). The architectural firm from Gent is known for its pragmatic approach. They dismantle an existing context and transform it into a new reality. This method of systematic deconstruction results invariably in new interpretations of architecture, a vocabulary all of their own.

GAFPA intervenes on different levels, ranging from private houses to public buildings, from urban design operations to scenography. The multidisciplinary firm doesn’t limit itself to house-building projects, but also regularly competes in international contest commissions.

The office is involved in teaching, allowing for a constant dialectic between academic research and practice.

Floris De Bruyn
(°1982 Dendermonde) Graduated Master in Architecture at Sint Lucas Gent. In addition to the architectural practice Floris De Bruyn is teaching at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent since 2008. He is currently leading the Master studio ‘Primary Structure’ and is regularly invited to lecture at international institutes as Kingston School of Art London and EPFL Lausanne.

Philippe De Berlangeer
(°1980 Aalst) Graduated Master in Architecture at Sint-Lucas Gent

Frederick Verschueren
(°1980 Oudenaarde) Graduated Master in Architecture at Sint-Lucas Gent

Facebook event link:  https://www.facebook.com/events/2016250142181020/

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Architectural Practice is curated by Cristian Stefanescu (Assistant Professor, BAS & founder of a-works | architecture + art) and co-hosted by the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and Bergen Society of Architects (BAF)

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Image Credits
GAFPA

The lecture is aimed at diploma students, but open for all interested!

This lecture is aimed at the diploma students, but is open to all interested.

Inger Måren BIO: I hold a PhD in Plant Ecology from the Department of Biology, University of Bergen (2009). I currently work at the Department of Biological Sciences and in 2017 I was appointed UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management – Nature and Culture.

My research focuses on the dynamics in coupled human and natural systems, including sustainable development, natural resource management, agro-biodiversity, sustainable land use, ecosystem services, agroecology, and food security. I work with colleagues across the social and natural sciences to elucidate links between anthropogenic activities and the environment, in Europe, as well as in Asia, North-America and Africa. I seek to gain multifaceted knowledge within ecology and associated disciplines to investigate social-ecological complexities. In addition to a PhD in ecology I have completed a minor in Social Anthropology, and the cross-disciplinary courses Ecology and Development and Resource Management and Environmental Conservation.