News

October 2024
Harvard GSD seminar on Agonistic Assemblies

October 2024<br>Harvard GSD seminar on Agonistic Assemblies

October 8th-10th, 2024

September 2024
A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition

September 2024<br>A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition

Conference in Paris from September 26th-27th, 2024

September 2024
Research Project for Fonds du Logement

September 2024<br>Research Project for Fonds du Logement

"Cité de l’Espérance" in Esch-sur-Alzette

July 2024
The Master in Architecture Programme joins HouseEurope!

July 2024<br>The Master in Architecture Programme joins HouseEurope!

Stop demolition, boost renovation!

June 2024
Klaas De Rycke

Klaas De Rycke has been appointed new Guest Professor of architecture at the University of Luxembourg.

June 2024
Cultures of Assembly & Democracy Next

June 2024<br>Cultures of Assembly & Democracy Next

Start of a strategic collaboration

May 2024
"The Great Repair" at Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris

End of the exhibition

April 2024
Field Trip to Copenhagen and Malmö

April 2024<br>Field Trip to Copenhagen and Malmö

Design Studio "Infrastructuring Assemblies"

April 2024
Field Trip to Ioannina

Design Studio "Earth, Water, Air, Fire"

March 2024
Infrastructuring Assemblies

March 2024<br>Infrastructuring Assemblies

Launch of a new design studio

March 2024
Earth, Water, Air, Fire: Designing with Elements. The Case of Ioannina, Greece

March 2024<br>Earth, Water, Air, Fire: Designing with Elements. The Case of Ioannina, Greece

Launch of a new design studio

April 2024
A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition

April 2024<br>A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition

Call for abstracts until April 10th, 2024

March 2024
"The Great Repair" at Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris

Exhibition March 6, 2024 – May 5, 2024

January 2024
"Agonistic Assemblies" by Markus Miessen

Book publication

December 2023
Doctoral defence

Céline Zimmer successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "A third housing sector for Luxembourg"

December 2023
A third housing sector for Luxembourg – emancipation of market and state in housing provision

December 2023<br>A third housing sector for Luxembourg – emancipation of market and state in housing provision

Céline Zimmer's doctoral defence December 20th, 2023

December 2023
Worlding soils. Caring for soil communities in Minett

December 2023<br>Worlding soils. Caring for soil communities in Minett

Exhibition December 19th, 2023 – January 13th, 2024

December 2023
Graduation Ceremony

December 14th, 2023

November 2023
Worlding Soils

Public lecture series at luca November - December, 2023

October 2023
Publication Arch+ 253: The Great Repair – A Catalogue of Practices

October 2023<br>Publication Arch+ 253: The Great Repair – A Catalogue of Practices

Co-edited by Florian Hertweck and Marija Maric

October 2023
"The Great Repair" exhibition is now open

October 14, 2023 – January 14, 2024 at Akademie der Künste, Berlin

October 2023
Opening of "The Great Repair" at Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Exhibition October 14, 2023 – January 14, 2024

October 2023
OAI Prize

OAI prize for the best master thesis awarded to Melsida Babayan for the project "Disappearing Territory"

July 2023
"Luxembourg in Transition" opens at luca

Exhibition July 1 – October 7, 2023

June 2023
As found

Lecture series at luca and COA June – July, 2023

May 2023
From extraction to restitution

May 2023<br>From extraction to restitution

Master in Architecture students’ week in collaboration with luca
May 24th – 31rst, 2023

May 2023
Down to Earth
18th Venice Architecture Biennale

May 2023<br>Down to Earth<br>18th Venice Architecture Biennale

Exhibition May 20 – November 26, 2023

May 2023
Petite Maison
Publication

May 2023<br>Petite Maison<br>Publication

A publication on the project of "Petite Maison" will be launched in June 2023

May 2023
The Great Repair? Colloquium

May 2023<br>The Great Repair? Colloquium

May 2nd, 2023

April 2023
Cultures of Assembly
+MODEL Award at Barcelona Architectures Festival

April 2023<br>Cultures of Assembly <br>+MODEL Award at Barcelona Architectures Festival

April 23rd – 26th, 2023

April 2023
Eist Neit Wunnen

The survey "Our New Housing" is now online

March 2023
Cultures of Assembly Opening Event

March 2023<br>Cultures of Assembly Opening Event

March 15th, 2023

February 2023
Arch+ The Great Repair Launch Event

February 2023<br>Arch+ The Great Repair Launch Event

Lecture February 27th, 2023 (online)

February 2023
Re-imagining Belval

Exhibition February 8th – 12th, 2023

January 2023
OAI Prize

OAI prize for the best master thesis awarded to Diana Zarnescu for the project Non-Human Routes

January 2023
Publication Arch+ 250: The Great Repair – A Reader

January 2023<br>Publication Arch+ 250: The Great Repair – A Reader

Co-edited by Florian Hertweck and Marija Maric

January 2023
Petite Maison

Since its opening Petite Maison has been visited by numerous groups and individuals

September 2022
Zwischenstand der Zwischenstadt

September 2022<br>Zwischenstand der Zwischenstadt

Collaborative exhibition of studentworks in Munich

September 2022
Opening Petite Maison

On the Welcome Day, 16th of September 2022, Petite Maison has been officially opened to the public

September 2022
Let's talk about Belval

September 2022<br>Let's talk about Belval

"Let's talk about Belval" is a week of public talks and roundtables

July 2022
Down to Earth

Francelle Cane and Marija Maric selected as curators of the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

September 2022
Platform Launch

The Chair of the City of Esch recently launched its new virtual platform "Cultures of Assembly"

September 2022
Bauwelt – Chair of the City of Esch

September 2022<br>Bauwelt – Chair of the City of Esch

Bauwelt magazine launched a special issue on “Europe in Transition”

September 2022
Forthcoming book

"Agonistic Assemblies (on the spatial politics of horizontality)"

September 2022
The 10 sqm Co-op

César Reyes Nájera and Céline Zimmer are exhibiting at the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2022

May 2022
Zwischenstadt Ringvorlesung

24. May 2022 at 17:45 (online)

May 2022
Lecture Kees Christiaanse on 25 years Zwischenstadt

May 2022<br>Lecture Kees Christiaanse on 25 years Zwischenstadt

Teaching cooperation between TU Munich, Bauhaus Universität Weimar and TU Vienna.

March 2022
Red Luxembourg. Exhibition and publication

March 2022<br>Red Luxembourg. Exhibition and publication

Red Luxembourg, an exhibition on housing. On display at KuFa, as part of ESCH 22, until 20 May

February 2022
Petite Maison as part of Esch 2022

February 2022 <br>Petite Maison as part of Esch 2022

With the help of all partners, the construction works of Petite Maison will start in March and end in July 2022.

February 2022
Opening of LUCA with exhibition on Common Ground

February 2022<br>Opening of LUCA with exhibition on Common Ground

From 22 February onwards the Luxembourg Center for Architecture will celebrate its new spaces in Clausen with the exhibition “EISE BUEDEM”.

January 2022
Luxembourg in Transition

January 2022<br>Luxembourg in Transition

Together with its project partners UL has successfully completed the phase 3 of the international call for tender "Luxembourg in Transition".

February 2022
The Ahrtal Studio – Coming exhibition in Linz

February 2022<br>The Ahrtal Studio – Coming exhibition in Linz

The Ahrtal Studio. Voices from a transforming river will take place at the Markt 9 gallery in Linz from 12.3.2022 – 03.4.2022.

January 2022
OASE 110 - The Project of the Soil

January 2022<br>OASE 110 - The Project of the Soil

David Peleman, Martina Barcelloni-Corte, Elsbeth Ronner and Paola Viganò have edited the new issue of OASE Journal for Architecture: The project of the soil / De grond van de kwestie.

January 2022
The Ahrtal Studio – Final jury in Trier

January 2022<br>The Ahrtal Studio – Final jury in Trier

On January 28th the final reviews of the 1st-semester design studio took place at Hochschule Trier.

October 2021
Cultures of Assembly – The Esch Clinics

October 2021<br>Cultures of Assembly – The Esch Clinics

New digital & physical platform of the CULTURES OF ASSEMBLY cluster going live soon.

July 2021
Luxembourg in Transition 2050

July 2021<br>Luxembourg in Transition 2050

The consortium of researchers and planners led by the University of Luxembourg has been selected for the third and last phase of the call for tender “Luxembourg in Transition 2050”.

October 2021
Where are we now, anyway?

October 2021<br>Where are we now, anyway?

Lecture by Francesco Jodice
Artist, photographer

April 2021
OASE #108. Ups & Downs

Ups & Downs. Reception Histories in Architecture, is the new issue of OASE Journal for Architecture, edited by Christophe Van Gerrewey, David Peleman, Jantje Engels and Justin Agyin.

April 2021
Liminal Living

A team is currently preparing an exhibition and a publication on future spatial developments in the transborder region of Luxembourg-France.

April 2021
Cultures of Assembly

As a form of mapping “Cultures of Assembly”, the Chair of the City of Esch is currently developing a digital platform alongside a pop-up neighbourhood agency in the centre of Esch.

March 2021
Petite Maison

University of Luxembourg contributes to the event of the European capital of culture 2022, with a small house on the Belval campus.

February 2021
Luxembourg in Transition 2050

February 2021<br>Luxembourg in Transition 2050

The consortium of researchers and planners led by the University of Luxembourg has been selected for the second phase for Luxembourg in Transition 2050.

February 2021
Launch DS2

Florian Hertweck, Markus Miessen and Marija Maric propose a design studio in the framework of the call for tender “Luxembourg in Transition".

January 2021
Markus Miessen

Markus Miessen has just been appointed new Professor of Urban Regeneration – Endowed Chair of the City of Esch – at the University of Luxembourg.

October 2020
Luxembourg in Transition 2050

October 2020<br>Luxembourg in Transition 2050

The University of Luxembourg has been selected for the first phase of the urban-architectural and landscape consultation entitled "Luxembourg in Transition – Spatial visions for the low-carbon and sustainable future of the Luxembourg functional region."

Architecture on
Common Ground

Book of the master program selected amongst the 20 best architecture books in 2020 by the DAM and the Frankfurt Book Fair.

23.10.2020
Bas Princen lecture
Image and space

23.10.2020<br>Bas Princen lecture<br>Image and space

Bas Princen, artist, photographer, will offer a lecture on his work. The lecture will be followed by an open round of discussion with the Master in architecture students of the Seminar fiction in architecture and the public.

30.10.2020
Winy Maas
What’s next?

On Friday 30 October Winy Maas will offer a lecture on Why the future, Why the vision, the imagination and the need to reinvent the WORLD.

09.10.2020
Leonor Antunes
Masterclass at Mudam

09.10.2020<br>Leonor Antunes <br>Masterclass at Mudam

Curated by visiting professor Carole Schmit, the seminar offers a critical view on the power of hierarchies at play in contemporary metropolitan landscapes.

24.09.2020
Greater Geneva and its soil final presentation

24.09.2020<br>Greater Geneva and its soil final presentation

On Thursday 24 September, the final presentation of all the prospects for Greater Geneva 2050 in the framework of the Greater Geneva Consultation took place via Zoom.

23.09.2020
IBA Alzette-Belval Steering Committee

23.09.2020<br>IBA Alzette-Belval Steering Committee

On Wednesday 23 September the first meeting of the steering committee of the cross-border IBA Alzette-Belval took place at the city hall of Sanem. On behalf of the Atelier pre-IBA, prof. P. Swinnen presented the state of affairs of the prefiguration mission.

September 2020
Launch DS3:
Studio Supralzette

September 2020<br>Launch DS3: <br>Studio Supralzette

Led by David Peleman and Celine Zimmer the hypothesis of the third semester studio is that housing is a crucial key to improve the sustainability of the post-industrial territory. The ambition of this studio is part of the mission of the Atelier pre-IBA.

September 2020
Launch of DS1:
Luxembourg in Transition

September 2020<br>Launch of DS1: <br>Luxembourg in Transition

The first semester studio led by Nikos Katsikis and Florian Hertweck, is linked to the “Luxembourg in Transition” call for tenders and blends the boundaries between architecture, planning, geography and territorial development.

30.01.2020
Pre-IBA Launch

The University of Luxemburg together with the GECT, EPA and LUCA publicly launches the pre-IBA trajectory for the transboundary Alzette Belval Region.

Winter Semester 2019
Fiction in architecture

Winter Semester 2019<br>Fiction in architecture

Curated by visiting professor Carole Schmit, the Fiction in architecture Seminar will offer a critical view on the power of hierarchies at play in contemporary metropolitan landscapes.

Winter Semester 2019
Open Design Studio

Winter Semester 2019<br>Open Design Studio

The Master in Architecture opens its doors to architects, stakeholders from politics and public administration, students from other disciplines and interested citizens.

Winter 2019/2020
Our Common Ground
Lecture Series

Winter 2019/2020<br>Our Common Ground<br>Lecture Series

The lecture series in Geography and Spatial Planning “Our Common Ground” aims at discussing current development trends and their underlying mechanisms, as it strives to present innovative policy responses and progressive planning approaches in different European contexts.

Summer 2019
First generation of Master students graduate

Summer 2019<br>First generation of Master students graduate

The first generation of students of the Master in Architecture graduated last summer, celebrated through events and covered widely by the media.

03.07.2019
Greater Geneva Intermediate Dialogue

03.07.2019<br>Greater Geneva Intermediate Dialogue

The University of Luxembourg team in collaboration with the ETH Zurich team participated in the intermediate dialogue of the Greater Geneva Consultation.

12.06.2019
Freiraum:
Open Space Belval

12.06.2019<br>Freiraum: <br>Open Space Belval<br>

Florian Hertweck will moderate a discussion about the public space of the Belval campus.

Spring 2019
This Will Feed That
Lecture Series

Spring 2019<br>This Will Feed That<br>Lecture Series

Launch of lecture series in collaboration with LUCA focusing on architecture’s impact on the urban tissue and development through purposefully chosen projects. On selected Tuesdays between February and May 2019.

06.03.2019
Positions on Emancipation Book Launch

06.03.2019<br>Positions on Emancipation Book Launch

Book launch event of Positions on Emancipation Book at the AA Bookshop in London, featuring the screening of a short movie by Christopher Roth, documenting the symposium, and a discussion between Florian Hertweck, Nikos Katsikis, Peter Swinnen with Costandis Kizis and Flavien Menu.

Prospectives visions for Greater Geneva

The Programme in Architecture, European Urbanization and Globalization, in collaboration with the Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning at ETH Zurich, have been selected to work on the Prospectives visions for Greater Geneva competition.

12.11.2018
Rethinking Clients

Peter Swinnen in conversation with Maarten Gielen, Yeoryia Manolopoulou and Giles Smith on the client-architect relationship as well as investment-led urbanisation. Architectural Association, London.

29.10.2018
Geographies of Ecological Surplus

29.10.2018<br>Geographies of Ecological Surplus

Nikos Katsikis presents his work on Operational Landscapes of Planetary Urbanization at the Sessions on Territory lecture series, ETH Zurich.

26.10.2018
From Urban Fabric to Urbanization Fabric

26.10.2018<br>From Urban Fabric to Urbanization Fabric

Nikos Katsikis presents his work on reinterpreting the fabric of urbanization at the Design Agency within Earth Systems Symposium at the Architectural Association, London.

24.10.2018
Learning from Berlin

Florian Hertweck presentation on how Berlin’s open, polycentric and extremely heterogeneous character has influenced a wide range of urban models.
University of Tokyo

26.05.2018 – 25.11.2018
The Architecture of the Common Ground
16th Venice Biennale of Architecture

26.05.2018 – 25.11.2018<br>The Architecture of the Common Ground<br>16th Venice Biennale of Architecture

The Programme in Architecture, European Urbanization and Globalization, in collaboration with the Luxembourg Center for Architecture (LUCA), is curating the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 16th Biennale of Architecture in Venice.

25.05.2018
ARCH+ features 75: Performing Architecture. The Property Issue

25.05.2018<br>ARCH+ features 75: Performing Architecture. The Property Issue

ARCH+ features 75: Performing Architecture. The Property Issue. With Marco Baravalle, Arno Brandlhuber, Roberta Da Soller, Monika Gintersdorfer, Florian Hertweck, Knut Klaßen, Anh-Linh Ngo, Andrea Rumpf.
S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice.

22.03.2018
Arch+ Features 73:
The Property Issue

22.03.2018<br>Arch+ Features 73: <br>The Property Issue

Arch+ Features 73: The Property Issue with Oana Bogdan, Arno Brandlhuber, Florian Hertweck, Marjia Maric, Christopher Roth.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

18.03.2018
Book and WebTV launch

Launch event of three Web TV stations with Zarinah Agnew, Sandra Bartoli, Arno Brandlhuber, Siddhartha Lokanandi, Niklas Maak, Can Onaner, Christopher Roth, and others. Expect one-pot cooking by TV chef Li Zhenhua, participating students from the ETH Zurich, and the book launch of Positions on Emancipation.
Berlin, Kunstwerke

27.10.2017
“Eco-Construction for Sustainable Development” research project

27.10.2017<br>“Eco-Construction for Sustainable Development” research project

Florian Hertweck and Marielle Ferreira Silva participate in the three years research project “Eco-Construction for Sustainable Development” directed by Danièle Waldmann together with the Suisse Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology (Empa) of ETH Zurich.

31.03.2017 – 01.04.2017
Positions on Emancipation
Conference

31.03.2017 – 01.04.2017<br>Positions on Emancipation<br>Conference

To what extent is architecture able to take into account the complexities of the socio-political, economical, ecological and cultural aspects of the production of space under globalised urbanisation?

01.03.2017
Florian Hertweck
Inaugural Lecture

01.03.2017<br>Florian Hertweck<br>Inaugural Lecture

Florian Hertweck gives his inaugural lecture at the University of Luxembourg: “Qu'est-ce que l'architecture et à quoi ça sert ?”

10.09.2016
Saskia Sassen
Keynote Lecture

10.09.2016<br>Saskia Sassen<br>Keynote Lecture

Sassen aims to uncover the broader systemic logic behind novel forms of migratory flows, tracing them within the multiscalar and often extreme contexts that generate them.

01.09.2016 – 10.09.2016
Architecture and Migration
Summer School

01.09.2016 – 10.09.2016<br>Architecture and Migration<br>Summer School

Held at Schengen, the Summer School aims to look into the issue of the impact that the various forms of migration might have on urban planning and architecture and how architects and city planners can get involved in approaches to integrate migrants and refugees.

02.02.2012 – 04.02.2012
Architecture, European Urbanisation, Globalisation
Conference

02.02.2012 – 04.02.2012<br>Architecture, European Urbanisation, Globalisation<br>Conference<br>

The three-day conference on Architecture, European Urbanisation and Globalisation presents in each session a mix of internationally leading architects, writers, curators and academics.

October 2024Harvard GSD seminar on Agonistic Assemblies

September 2024A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition

September 2024Research Project for Fonds du Logement

July 2024The Master in Architecture Programme joins HouseEurope!

June 2024Klaas De Rycke

June 2024Cultures of Assembly & Democracy Next

May 2024"The Great Repair" at Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris

April 2024Field Trip to Copenhagen and Malmö

April 2024Field Trip to Ioannina

March 2024Infrastructuring Assemblies

March 2024Earth, Water, Air, Fire: Designing with Elements. The Case of Ioannina, Greece

April 2024A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition

March 2024"The Great Repair" at Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris

January 2024"Agonistic Assemblies" by Markus Miessen

December 2023Doctoral defence

December 2023A third housing sector for Luxembourg – emancipation of market and state in housing provision

December 2023Worlding soils. Caring for soil communities in Minett

December 2023Graduation Ceremony

November 2023Worlding Soils

October 2023Publication Arch+ 253: The Great Repair – A Catalogue of Practices

October 2023"The Great Repair" exhibition is now open

October 2023Opening of "The Great Repair" at Akademie der Künste, Berlin

October 2023OAI Prize

September 2023Worlding Soils

July 2023"Luxembourg in Transition" opens at luca

June 2023As found

May 2023From extraction to restitution

May 2023Down to Earth18th Venice Architecture Biennale

May 2023Petite MaisonPublication

May 2023The Great Repair? Colloquium

April 2023Cultures of Assembly +MODEL Award at Barcelona Architectures Festival

April 2023Eist Neit Wunnen

March 2023Open Day Event

March 2023Cultures of Assembly Opening Event

February 2023Arch+ The Great Repair Launch Event

February 2023 Re-imagining Belval

January 2023OAI Prize

January 2023Publication Arch+ 250: The Great Repair – A Reader

January 2023Petite Maison

September 2022Zwischenstand der Zwischenstadt

September 2022Opening Petite Maison

September 2022Let's talk about Belval

July 2022Down to Earth

September 2022Platform Launch

September 2022Bauwelt – Chair of the City of Esch

September 2022Forthcoming book

September 2022The 10 sqm Co-op

May 2022Zwischenstadt Ringvorlesung

May 2022Lecture Kees Christiaanse on 25 years Zwischenstadt

March 2022Red Luxembourg. Exhibition and publication

February 2022 Petite Maison as part of Esch 2022

February 2022Opening of LUCA with exhibition on Common Ground

January 2022Luxembourg in Transition

February 2022The Ahrtal Studio – Coming exhibition in Linz

January 2022OASE 110 - The Project of the Soil

January 2022The Ahrtal Studio – Final jury in Trier

October 2021Cultures of Assembly – The Esch Clinics

July 2021Luxembourg in Transition 2050

October 2021Where are we now, anyway?

April 2021OASE #108. Ups & Downs

April 2021Liminal Living

April 2021Cultures of Assembly

March 2021Petite Maison

February 2021Luxembourg in Transition 2050

February 2021Launch DS2

January 2021Markus Miessen

October 2020Luxembourg in Transition 2050

Architecture on Common Ground

23.10.2020Bas Princen lectureImage and space

30.10.2020Winy MaasWhat’s next?

09.10.2020Leonor Antunes Masterclass at Mudam

24.09.2020Greater Geneva and its soil final presentation

23.09.2020IBA Alzette-Belval Steering Committee

September 2020Launch DS3: Studio Supralzette

September 2020Launch of DS1: Luxembourg in Transition

30.01.2020Pre-IBA Launch

Winter Semester 2019Fiction in architecture

Winter Semester 2019Open Design Studio

Winter 2019/2020Our Common GroundLecture Series

Summer 2019First generation of Master students graduate