Ninth Edition 2023-2024

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BC is BC architects & studies & materials. BC stands for Brussels Cooperation and points to how BC grew – embedded within a place and people. It operates through 3 legal entities registered in Belgium: BC architects bv (architecture company), BC studies vzw (non-profit education laboratory), BC materials cv (material production cooperative). BC is a hybrid practice, designing and undertaking “acts of building” towards systemic change in the construction sector. It strives for bioregional, low-tech, circular, beautiful and inclusive design. Its members work with their minds and their hands, undertaking activities such as community organisation, material production, contracting, teaching, prototyping. They aim to impact positively on people’s ideas and the planet. They act on behalf of future generations.

BC architects is an award-winning architectural office; it teaches at KU Leuven, Hasselt University, RWTH Aachen University and has previously taught at EiABC Addis Ababa University, ETH Zurich, TU Stuttgart, TU München. Starting between 2009 and 2012, its team currently consists of the 4 co-founders – Laurens Bekemans (1986), Nicolas Coeckelberghs (1986), Ken De Cooman (1983), Wes Degreef (1986) – and some 15 collaborators, working from Brussels on projects on the European and African continents.

BC studies is a non-profit research and education laboratory investigating the material environment through processes of construction and production. BC studies manifests itself in teaching & education, consultancy, workshops and published research.