Femicity
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ANNIE AND THE GIRLS
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This 26-minute short film tells the story of the renaming of the Leopold II tunnel to Annie Cordy and talks about the artistic work of Charlotte Beaudry who imagined a piece of work to animate the 5 km of tunnel, a piece of work that honours the women of Brussels today and tomorrow. Women take…
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BOGDAN & VAN BROECK : Portrait of Oana Bogdan
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Oana Bogdan is architect at Bogdan & Van Broeck, an office she co-created with Leo Van Broeck. In this portrait, she explains her professional career and the vision of architecture that the studio develops within its Brussels agency. With Oana Bogdanwww.bogdanvanbroeck.com Technical sheet of this architecture video clipJournalist: Emma C. DessourouxCameraman: Emma C. Dessouroux (Les…
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noAarchitecten : Portrait of An Fonteyne
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An Fonteyne is a partner at the Brussels architectural firm NoAarchitecten. They have just won two major projects in the Belgian capital; one for housing on the Tour and Taxis site (with awg architecten and Sergison Bates architects) and one for the competition for the musée Kanal – Centre Pompidou, which they won in partnership…
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WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE
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Through a series of profiles, Mister Emma considers the evolution of the position of women within the architectural profession. What are their past and current battles? How has their visibility increased in books, in the universities, on the reference sites, in international prizes? A FEMICITY program. Technical sheet of this architecture video clipJournalist : Emma…
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THE PRIZE OF WOMEN ARCHITECTS, Paris – France (2018)
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As with every year, the ARVHA awards the Prix Femmes Architectes in Paris. The purpose of these prizes is to celebrate female architects in France. CAVIAR, under the FEMICITY programme, went to meet the winners of the 2018 awards. How important is it for them to win these awards, and, quite simply, for the existence…
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SBBT ARCHITECTURE : Portrait of Sophie Berthelier
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Sophie Berthelier worked at architect Jean Nouvel’s firm before founding with her associate Benoît Tribouillet the SBBT organisation in Paris and Chartres. These days she has moved away from contextual architecture to work on a more sensitive form of architecture with in-depth working on materials. She breaks away from the architectural gesture as it’s the…
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PARIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK, Paris – France
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The architect Véronique Descharrières collaborates with the firm Bernard Tschumi Urbanistes Architectes. Together they worked on the Paris Zoological Park for which she received the Prix Femmes Architectes in the category ‘Original Work’ in 2015. This project has given them the opportunity to reflect on cohabitation and animal well-being in an urban space. The programme…
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architectesassoc. : Portrait of Sabine Leribaux
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Her interest in architecture goes back to her early childhood. She first really understood this passion when she passed by a building site as a teenager. She has always been interested in the “doing” which she has never wanted to move away from. The aim of creating the « architectesassoc. » organisation was for her to stay…
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DDS+ : Portrait of Dominique Delbrouck
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Dominique Delbrouck studied at La Cambre (Brussels) before joining movements seeking to preserve the quality of the city. She then signed up to the architectural grammar process of the Atelier d’Art Urbain, before co-founding the DDS & Partners firm, now DDS+. A “plus” that she intends to put to good use in each of the…
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GENERALE : Portrait of Florence Hoffmann
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Florence Hoffmann is an architect at the Brussels cooperative ‘Générale’. She works mainly on public projects. With mostly political project ownership, she characterizes her architecture as combat architecture, in order to defend her projects at the competitions in which she takes part. Florence Hoffmann Générale www.generale.la info@generale.la With the support of Technical sheet of this…