Julien will be lecturing in Gent, Belgium at the Archipel on Thursday the 11th of December.
For more info see below.

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Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban planning. Till now, however, there has been no exhibition dealing explicitly with megastructuralists’ vision. MEGASTRUCTURE RELOADED seeks for the first time to show them in context.

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don’ miss the Dynamo Award Ceremony on Saturday evening. Details follow.

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what is Pecha Kucha Night?

Julien de Smedt won’t make it but is still worth checking out. what is Pecha Kucha Night anyway? Devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), Pecha Kucha Night was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

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ANORAK
rue de flandre 121
b - 1000 bruxelles
t/f  + 32 2 732 18 56

www.anorak.be

Just next to the JDS BXL office.

JDS is short-listed in collaboration with Studio Associato Secchi-Vigano and consultants as the youngest of five offices in what turns out to be a OMA three tier generation competition!

The planning competition launched last April for the restructuring of the European quarter has now come to the end of the crucial preliminary stage, 5 teams from the initial 35 have been selected. This choice was made after receiving the recommendations of the advisory committee set up for this public contract, which met mid June in Brussels. And it turns out to be an interesting mix of generations, 3 of the 5 have worked together at different times. Both Julien de Smedt and Xaveer de Geyter passed through Rem Koolhass´s office at the start of their careers.

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Photo by Nicolaj Møller