Master Class 120% Brussels

130
Jury
Joachim Declerck
Joachim Declerck is co-founder and
program director of Architecture
Workroom Brussels. From 2008 till
2010, he directed the professional
development program at the Berlage
Institute in Rotterdam. He was
co-curator of the 3rd IABR and the
exhibition A Vision for Brussels (both
in 2007). He was curator of Building
for Brussels. Architecture and Urban
Transformation in Europe (Bozar,
2010) and the 5th IABR, Making City.
He is vice-president of the Regional
Development Commission of the
Brussels Capital Region.
Michiel Dehaene
is an associate professor at the Ghent
University of Technology. After
obtaining the degree of Civil Engineer-
Architect at KU Leuven, he worked on
the Piano Regolatore General for Bergamo
at office Secchi Viganò, before
graduating at Harvard University’s
Graduate School of Design as a Master
of Architecture in Urban Design. In
2002 he completed a PhD investigating
the role of survey in the development
of British town planning. He is coeditor
of Heteropia and the city: public
space in a postcivil society (2008).
Mona Farag
studied architecture at the Technische
Universität Karlsruhe. She was active
in several renowned offices in the
Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland
before joining Christ & Gantenbein
Architects in 2002. She has been
an associate of Christ & Gantebein
since 2007.
Eric Lapierre
Architect DPLG, critic, architectural
historian, Eric Lapierre opened
his office in Paris in 2000. The office
takes a stance against the formalistic
and spectacular architecture generated
by the contemporary version of
capitalism. Eric Lapierre works on the
possibility of creating contemporary
building that are not informed by marketing
values. That’s why
his work questions convention, tradition,
innovation and banality.
Freek Persyn
is a partner in Brussels-based
51N4E, founded in 1998. He studied
architecture at Sint-Lucas School
of Architecture in Brussels and the
Dublin Institute of Technology.
In 2004, 51N4E was awarded the
prestigious Rotterdam Maaskant
Award for Young Architects. Parallel
to his professional activities at
51N4E, he is an assistant professor
at the University of Ghent, a visiting
critic and studio master at the
Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and
a visiting professor at the Academy
of Architecture in Mendrisio,
Switzerland.
Valérie Lambot
is member of the Architecture and
Urbanism section in the cabinet
of the Secretary of State Emir Kir.
Anne-Sophie Walazyc
is affiliated to monuments and sites
within the Cabinet of the Minister-
President of the Brussels-Capital
Region Charles Picqué.