BAST +AgwA

On Building

The second event in 2021 is focused on building -both its material definition and representation- as a fundamental stage of a learning process towards architecture understood as a common field of knowledge. Our guests are the Brussels-based practice AgwA and the Toulouse based practice BAST -Bureau Architectures Sans Titre-, which will build a shared presentation introducing sites, procedures, worker choreographies and their specific attitude on the built world, through a series of renovations of different scale and character in Belgium and France.

In English, this conference combines a presentation from both guests and a conversation moderated by the curators of Common Field - Diana Menino and Felipe De Ferrari. We invite those who attend to participate and ask questions.

Biographies

AgwA
AgwA is a Brussels based architecture office founded by Harold Fallon (ir architect, PhD, assist. prof. KULeuven) Benoît Vandenbulcke (ir architect, PhD, assist. prof. ULiège) and Benoît Burquel (ir architect, assist. ULB). Their practice explores which design strategies allow to address structure and architecture as two equally important aspects of one unique ambition in each project. In 2019 they published ‘Chantier / Construction Site’.

BAST (Bureau Architectures Sans Titre) 
BAST was founded in Toulouse in 2013 with the ambition to develop a practice ‘where the individuality of each partner is discarded in order to profit of the collective work’s expression’. Today is a cooperative and participative society (SCOP) with three partners: Laurent Didier, Mathieu Le Ny et Louis Léger.

Their collective and non-formalist approach has been recognised through several prizes including the Prix Architecture Occitanie for the M15 house in Toulouse (2017), Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes (AJAP, 2018) and EU Mies Award Emerging Architect prize for the school refectory in Montbrun-Bocage (2019.) The same year they were finalists of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale Debut Award.

About Common Field

This lecture series takes architecture as a strategic attitude to space and resources. By adopting a critical and optimistic attitude, it can take on reality in radical ways, unveiling contradictions and potential, and developing projects that enable emancipatory ideas, thus building a common field. Such an approach can be conceived as a cumulative process of constant appropriation, imitation, repetition, translation, and re-contextualisation with open-minded thinking - embracing pragmatism and humour - based on the careful review of material reality and social conditions. Exploring these threads will lead us towards a collective form of construction.
Curated by Diana Menino and Felipe De Ferrari.