Dreaming Out Loud: François Gena
Within the Dreaming Out Loud series, SCHUNCK highlights young architects and visual artists from Limburg and the Euregio. In this edition, architect François Gena takes centre stage.
Where
SCHUNCK Glaspaleis
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The Brussels-based architect develops a practice that is both independent and collaborative, open to various forms of cooperation and intervention. His research focuses on ordinary, existing places and buildings that shape our everyday environment: the bourgeois townhouse, the suburban villa, the retail gallery and the industrial wasteland. In 2016, François Gena received the third prize of the Euregional Architecture Award (EAP).
Heritage of the everyday
According to Gena, these places together form a shared heritage of the past two centuries. They tell the story of how our cities and living environments have developed and how people live, work and come together within them. In his work, he explores how this existing heritage can be revealed, preserved and adapted to new ways of living together and to a more sustainable use of our environment.
Dialogue as a starting point
An important principle in Gena’s practice is dialogue. He works from the idea that architecture emerges through conversation with those who build, those who inhabit, those who use and those who maintain these places. By bringing these perspectives together, he explores how existing places can gain new meaning and a future.
About Dreaming Out Loud
With Dreaming Out Loud, SCHUNCK regularly invites young architects and artists to create a cabinet presentation. The series offers space for new ideas and perspectives on architecture, art and the built environment.