Biography

Architect Jo Van Den Berghe Ph.D

[°1961]

1986 -	Architect	Jo Van Den Berghe Architect
2002 -	Co-founder	Juliaan Lampens Foundation

Tenure professor of Architecture	Experimental architectural design in M.Arch 1 and M.Arch 2 at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels/Ghent Belgium
Visiting professor	Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Professor of Architecture	RMIT University Melbourne, campus Barcelona, Spain
Visiting critic	Estonian Academy of Arts, Fac.of Arch., Tallinn, Estonia
Visiting professor	EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Visiting professor	Queens University, Belfast, UK

Researcher in the field of Techné and Poiesis in making architecture

Reflective practitioner-architect since 1986, with an intimate and critical architectural practice in Belgium (www.jovandenberghe.be)

1. Education

2012	Ph.D in Architecture, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2009	RTS (Research Training Sessions), Doctoral School Program, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels/Ghent, Belgium
1984 - 1986	Internship at Prof. Dr. Juliaan Lampens Architect, Eke, Belgium
1984	Master of Science in Architecture, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent, Belgium
1979	Secondary School, Latin-Mathematics, O.-L.-Vrouwcollege, Zottegem, Belgium

2. Current and previous positions at University of Leuven Faculty of Architecture campus Sint-Lucas:

2013	Tenure Professor	KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture campus Sint-Lucas Research unit Architecture and Design / Research Group Radical Materiality. Promoter of the Academic Design Office Studio Anatomy.
2008 - 2013	Researcher	Sint-Lucas School of Architecture
2005 - 2013	Assistant Professor	Sint-Lucas School of Architecture

Teaching

Teaching architectural design at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture since 2005:

Design studio 36: structures
Design studio 45: architectural detail
Design studio 65: bachelor design (bachelor project)
Design studio 24: experimental architectural design studio (2010-2016)
Academic Design Office Studio Anatomy (2015-)
Design studio 14: final master project studio (2016-)

Mentor of subsequent batches of graduate students (final master studio): Griet Drieghe, Evelien Haelterman, Karolien Andries, Katelijne Vanhoutte, Elisa Caen, Jolijn Mortier, Mathieu Verougstraete, Lennert Dejonghe, Bavo Gladiné, Fien Rebry, Ann-Sophie Ostyn.

Research

Researcher in the field of Techné and Poiesis in making architecture (the poetics of making).

Research Unit Architecture and Design, Research Group Radical Materiality, head of Academic Design Office Studio Anatomy at KU Leuven Department of Architecture.

Reflective experimental and research based teaching program at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas.

Reflective practitioner-architect with a critical and research based architectural practice in Belgium.

Research Projects:

2016 - 2018: Smart Switches (in collaboration with dr. Laurens Luyten)(in preparation)
2014 - :ADAPT-r: co-supervisor of 3 Ph.D’s (ADAPT-r fellows)
2015 - 2018: RMIT University: co-supervisor of 3 Ph.D’s (ADAPT-r fellows)
2012 - : post-doctoral research: investigations of new modes of (architectural) drawing
2009 - 2012: Ph.D
2008 - 2013: OPAK project 07/47 New Feet, in collaboration with Dr. Jeroen D’hoe (music composer), transdisciplinary research between architecture and music (Sint-Lucas School of Architecture and Lemmensinstituut)

Jo Van Den Berghe belongs to the new research paradigm Research by Design / Design Research at the KU Leuven Department of Architecture, formerly Sint-Lucas School of Architecture. His research activities rely on a wide range of experiences in architectural practice, architectural education and research environments at home and abroad.

In his Ph.D (Theatre of Operations: Construction Site as Architectural Design) Jo Van Den Berghe investigates the interaction between ‘poetics’ and ‘making’ in architecture. Design processes in architecture are assumed to be a unidirectional process with an unavoidable delay between a ‘poetic image’ that comes first and that subsequently has to be substantiated by the master builder through ‘making’. In his Ph.D Jo Van Den Berghe demonstrates how this mechanism also works in the opposite direction, that this is a two-directional process, hence that making in substance can also be the generator of the poetic image, and that the vertical section is the most appropriate instrument for the architect to create the moment of making that coexists with the emergence of the poetic image.

Jo Van Den Berghe is developing more elaborated versions of ‘the section’ in his post doctoral research: the Chronological Drawing, the X-Ray-Drawing and the Anatomical Drawing. The first and last are combined with annotated drawing. The Anatomical Drawing is merged with the (central) perspective. His recent peer reviewed publications—see publications—and presentations at international conferences elaborate on these types of drawing. Annotated drawing and central perspective, and the extension of their application fields in the discipline and the profession now need be further investigated through making (sections, scale models, full scale construction site situations) and through research into their historical backgrounds.

From 2015 on, the Academic Design Studio Studio Anatomy at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture will be the new location of this research. This research is embedded in the research unit Architecture and Design / research group Radical Materiality at KU Leuven Department of Architecture.

3. Current positions at other universities:

Visiting professor of Architecture at Politecnico di Milano (2016-2017).

Professor of Architecture, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Campus Barcelona, Spain (2015-2018).

Visiting professor at Ecole Politecnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)(2014-).

Visiting professor at Queen’s University, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Belfast, UK (2014-).

Visiting professor at Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia (2015).

4. Organisation of International Conferences and Workshops

2016/04	Practice Research Symposium, RMIT University Barcelona: panel member presentations of Ph.D projects.
2016/01	ARM Conference (Architectural Research Moments), KULeuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas/Brussels: scientific committee, panel member.
2015/11	Practice Research Symposium, RMIT University Barcelona: panel member presentations of Ph.D projects.
2015/04	Practice Research Symposium, April 2015, KULeuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas/Ghent: panel member presentations of Ph.D projects.
2015/01	ARM Conference(Architectural Research Moments), KULeuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas/Brussels: scientific committee.
2014/08	Conference Creative Practice Research, KULeuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas/Brussels: organising committee, scientific committee and reviewing committee, panel member.
2014/11	Practice Research Symposium, RMIT University Barcelona: panel member presentations of Ph.D projects.
2014/04	Practice Research Symposium, KULeuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas/Ghent: panel member presentations of Ph.D projects.
2014/01	ARM Conference (Architectural Research Moments), KULeuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas/Brussels: scientific committee, panel member.
2013/11	Practice Research Symposium, RMIT University Barcelona: panel member presentations of Ph.D projects.
2013/05	Conference Knowing (by) Designing: scientific committee, panel member.

5. Memberships at KU Leuven Faculty/Department of Architecture

Council of the Faculty of Architecture (Faculteitsraad).
Council of the Department of Architecture (Departementsraad).
Research Commission (Onderzoekscommissie).
Ph.D Commission of the Faculty of Architecture (Facultaire Doctoraatscommissie).
Task Force Doctoral Education (Taskforce Doctoraatsopleidingen).
Task Force transition masters to Ph.D’s (Werkgroep Doorstroming Masters naar Doctoraatsopleidingen).
Task Force Internationalisation (Werkgroep Internationalisering).
Council for the self evaluation report of the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture.
Research Group ‘Radical Materiality.
Chairmain of the Academic Design Office (ADO) ‘Studio Anatomy’.

6. Co-supervisor of the following Ph.D's

Eric Guibert, Adapt-r fellowship (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johan Verbeke)(KU Leuven).
Petra Marguc, Adapt-r fellowship (supervisor Prof. Dr. Johan Verbeke)(KU Leuven).
Ana Crec, Adapt-r fellowship (supervisor Prof. Dr. Johan Verbeke)(KU Leuven).
Alice Casey (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Richard Blythe)(RMIT Melbourne).
Cian Deegan (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Leon van Schaik)(RMIT Melbourne).
Steve Larkin (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Richard Blythe)(RMIT Melbourne).
Eva Pratts (supervisor Dr. Leon van Schaik)(RMIT Melbourne)(in preparation).

7. Publications

Van Den Berghe, J. (2016), 7 Axioms of Doubt, in: Holy Molecule, Honoré d’O, exhibition catalog, Mu.ZEE, Honoré d’O, The artist/Mu.Zee, pp. 49-52.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2016), Moratorium (on) Space, and the Anatomical Window: embodiment of experience through speculative architectural drawing, Drawing Futures Conference, University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, 11-12 November 2016 (in preparation).
Van Den Berghe, J. (2016), The Absent Room, Garant Publishers, Antwerp, Belgium (in preparation).
Van Den Berghe, J. (2015), Drawing Is / Not Building: Question Mark, book publication by the Adam Art Gallery, Christina Barton, Simon Twose, Sarah Treadwell eds., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 82-83.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2015), A Window on Drawing, ADAPT-r Conference Making Research, Researching Making, adapt-R publication, Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 402-411.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2015), ’t Raboes Project: The Boathouse 2 in Eemnes, publicatie van het project in De Architect, http://www.dearchitect.nl/, De Architect, Den Haag, Nederland.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2014-2015), ’t Raboes Project: The Boathouse 2 in Eemnes, publication of the project in Practical Poetics, Leon van Schaik editor, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 87-93.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2014-2015), Creativity Book (working title): Two Interviews on Creativity Processes (a music composer and a fashion designer), Johan Verbeke ed. (in preparation).
Van Den Berghe, J. and D’hoe, J. (2014-2015), New Feet for 5 Years a Minute, an artistic research into groundbreaking spatial-temporal experiences in the cross-discipline of architecture and music, in: Evaluating Research in the Arts, Walter Ysebaert editor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (in preparation).
Van Den Berghe, J. (2014.d), (Lace)Making, Drawing, Dreaming, in: The Practice of Spatial Thinking, Leon van Schaik and SueAnne Ware editors, OnePointSixOne, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 161-170.
Van Den Berghe, J., Sanders, M. and Vandermarliere, K. (2014.c), De Provocatie van het Schijnbaar Onmogelijke / La Provocation du soi-disant Impossible (The Provocation of the Apparently Impossible), in A+, ICASD VZW, Brussel, België, pp. 42-46.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2014), publication of the WoSho project (Fashion and Architecture Workshop and kangaroo house), http://architizer.com/projects/wosho/, Architizer, New York, US.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2014.b), The Carpenter and the Draughtsman: an Embedded Report on the Architecture of Juliaan Lampens, in A+U 523 Juliaan Lampens, Nobuyiki Yoshida Publisher Editor, Asami Naito Senior Editor, Yoko Fukuda-Noennig Editor, A+U Publishing, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 14-19.
Van Den Berghe, j. (2014.a), The Landscape: the Tent and the Grotto, in A+U 523 Juliaan Lampens, Nobuyiki Yoshida Publisher Editor, Asami Naito Senior Editor, Yoko Fukuda-Noennig Editor, A+U Publishing, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 20-21.
Van Den Berghe, J., and D’hoe, J. (2013.c), publication of the research results of the OPAK research project New Feet for 5 years a Minute, OPAK Cahier 32, Association of the Leuven University, in collaboration with Concertgebouw Brugge, and the Spectra Ensemble, ACCO Publishers, Leuven, België.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2013.b), Architectural Drawing as Verb, not as Noun: extending the Concept of Chronological Drawing and X-Ray-Drawing, International Conference: Knowing (by) Designing, LUCA School of Arts, Brussel/Gent, België, pp. 665-673.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2013.a), Research into the Education of (a) Practice: Outlining a Profile in a Context of Profiles, EAAE Conference Educating the Future: Architectural Education in an International Perspective, Istambul Kultur University, Istambul, Turkey, pp. 174-184.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2012), Theatre of Operations, or: Construction Site as Architectural Design: publication of the Ph.D.
http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/
Van Den Berghe, J. (2011), Life is a Narrow Passage between an Endless Sea and an Endless Sea (a column, a beam, and the birth of a vault), in: Corps, Sint-Lucas Architectuur, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussel/Gent, België, pp. 57-58.
Van Den Berghe, J., and D’hoe, J. (2010), New Feet for 5 Years a Minute: een artistiek onderzoek naar grensverleggende ruimte-tijd-ervaringen in de transdiscipline architectuur-muziek, in: Adem pp.121-125.ed. Paul Schollaert, Lemmens School of Music, Leuven, België.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2010.b), The Imaginative Process of Thinking, paper and lecture at the International Conference on Design Creativity 2010, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Kobe, Japan (peer reviewed, approved, presented, not published).
Van Den Berghe, J. (2010.a), The Meaning of Life: an Assumption, a Short Story, in Conditions N°4, pp. 72-75, Joana da Rocha Sà Lima, Tor Inge Hjemdal, Anders Melsom eds., Oslo, Norway, pp. 72-75.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2009.c), There is a (w)hole Metropolis in the 3rd Realm: Amplifying Poetics in the In-Between: a Meaning—through Design—for the Reinvention of the Polis, in: Communicating (by) Design, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture and Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg, Johan Verbeke & Adam Jakimowicz eds., Brussel, België, pp. 467-477.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2009.b), Van Concept tot Materiële Verwezenlijking (From Concept to Substantiation), in: Reflections +11, Johan Verbeke ed., Sint-Lucas School of Architecture Brussel / Gent, België, pp. 118-125.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2009.a), The Story of a Supermodel of a Goddess, in: Reflections +9, Johan Verbeke ed., Sint-Lucas School of Architecture Brussel / Gent, België, pp. 219-227.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2007), State of Mind of a Practitioner becoming a Reflective Practitioner turning into a Researcher, in: Reflections +7, Johan Verbeke ed., Sint-Lucas School of Architecture Brussel / Gent, België, pp. 334-345.
Van Den Berghe, J. (2006), Het Innerlijke Landschap (The Inner Landscape), in: Reflections +2, Johan Verbeke ed., Sint-Lucas School of Architecture

8. Invited lectures

2016/04	The Belgian 9, Keynote speaker at the opening of the Practice Research Symposium, Leuven University Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent.
2015/05	Dark Space: Vanishing Points in Central Perspectives, Keynote speaker (together with Juhani Pallasmaa) at the SISU Interior Architecture Symposium 2015, Tallinn, Estonia.
2015/02	A Journey into Memory and Imagination: Mnemosyne’s Death and the Failure of Mourning, Estonian Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia.
2014/12	The Thinker, the Poet, and I: Mnemosyne’s Death and the Failure of Mourning, Queens University, Belfast, UK.
2014/11	The Shadow Tracer, The Column, and I, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.
2014/09	Wolf versus Welp, in collaboration with Hanne Van Den Biesen, opening lecture for the academic year 2014-2015 at Leuven University Faculty of Architecture, Brussels, Belgium.
2014/04	The Anatomical Drawing, University College Dublin.
2014/03	Loitering with Intent: on spaces and conversations, UNIARTS (University of the Arts), Stockholm, Sweden.
2013/10	Juliaan Lampens Architect: a Journey into the Realm of the Timid, the Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2012/09	The Man-made Horizon, Architectuurcafé, Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
2012/08	Common Ground?, Venice Biennale, Slovenian Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
2011/05	New Feet for 5 years a Minute, Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgium.
2006/11	Juliaan Lampens: van Embryo tot Verwezenlijking, lecture at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent, Belgium.

9. Exhibitions

2016/05-11	International Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy, participation with WoSho/Letterbox project in the Belgian Pavilion.
2015/03-04	Carousel, with House DGDR, curators Jan De Vylder, Christel Vinck and Jo Taillieu, GTA Exhibitions, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
2014/10	De Provocatie van het Schijnbaar Onmogelijke (The Provocation of the Apparently Impossible), in collaboration with Mira Sanders, curator Katrien Vandermarliere, exhibition architectural research in the exhibition series ‘Projecties’, VAI (Flemish Architecture Institute), DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium.
2014/04	The Anatomical Drawing, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
2013/04	Ph.D Exhibition, RMIT Campus Barcelona, Spain.
2012/11	Theatre of Operations, Ph.D Exhibition, University Library (Henry Van de Velde), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
2012/11	The Boathouse 1 and The Boathouse 2, Leon Van Schaik curator, Dessa Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2012/08	The Boathouse 1 and The Boathouse 2, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2011/11	Ph.D research installation, Graduate Research Conference, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent, Belgium.
2011/05	New Feet for 5 Years a Minute, in collaboration with Jeroen D’hoe, Annemie Demeulemeester and Frank Beeckman, Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges, Belgium.
2010/11	Ph.D research installation, Graduate Research Conference, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent, Belgium.
2008/09	By Design for Design, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels, Belgium.
2008/07	The Urban Tendency: exhibition in ‘The London Architecture Festival 2008’, Westminster School of Architecture and the Built Environment, London, UK.
2006/11	Juliaan Lampens: van Embryo tot Verwezenlijking, in collaboration with the Juliaan Lampens Foundation, Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent, Belgium.
2000/09	Supernova, exhibition in ‘Brussels: European Cultural Capital of the Year 2000’, Brussels, Belgium.
1993	Architecture in East Flanders, Ghent, with the project of a converted farm-estate into a family house MV, Z, Belgium.
1989/03	Exhibition of the Competition (Gent, Wilgenstraat) of the Flemish Minister of Social Housing (First Prize), Batibouw, Brussels, Belgium.