Nicolas Coeckelberghs: The act of building
9. 9. 2019
Nicolas Coeckelberghs: The act of building
9. 9. 2019
You are cordially invited to attend the public lecture The act of building, as part of the European project Made In – Craft and Design Narratives.
Architect and material technologist Nicolas Coeckelberghs talks about the work of research-based architecture office ‘BC architects & studies’ centred upon bioregional circular material production and active community involvement.
The act of building is at once action and narrative. It is the complex effort of a community to erect its infrastructure, spanning across skillsets and demographics, across materials and technologies. It generates impact and expresses the values and ideas of a broad network around a specific project.
BC architects & studies aim to interrogate the act of building by broadening their design process to include material production, contracting, story-telling, knowledge transfer and community organization.
BC stands for Brussels Cooperation and points to how ‘BC architects, studies and materials’ grew, embedded within a place and people. With three legal entities, BC starts from architecture, and through research, experimentation and development of expertise moves to material production and contracting. As a hybrid office, BC maneuvres the boundaries of these disciplines in ‘a doer’s manner’.
The lecture is part of a workshop that takes from 9th to 13th September in the Manufaktura Radovljica as part of the European Made In – Craft and Design Narratives project.
Location
Location: Graščina Radovljica (plesna dvorana, 1st Floor), Linhartov trg 1, Radovljica