Julien De Smedt
JULIEN DE SMEDT
About Speaker
Julien De Smedt is the founder and director of JDS Architects based in Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Shanghai. Prior to founding JDS Architects, Julien worked with Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, and co-founded the architecture firm PLOT with Bjarke Ingels in Copenhagen. In 2013, he co-founds with William Ravn the agenda-driven design label Makers With Agendas, addressing matters of society to create meaningful products.
Among other awards and recognition, Julien received the Henning Larsen Prize in 2003 and the Eckersberg medal in 2005, the Maaskant Award in 2009, and the Prix Dejean in 2014 from the French Academy of Architecture. He has been a guest lecturer in numerous venues worldwide and a professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and the University of Kentucky and currently teaches at MIT (Cambridge, USA) and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His work is published and exhibited internationally.
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Kent, England
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Kingston Polytechnic
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Julien De Smedt is the founder and director of JDS Architects based in Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Shanghai. Prior to founding JDS Architects, Julien worked with Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, and co-founded the architecture firm PLOT with Bjarke Ingels in Copenhagen. In 2013, he co-founds with William Ravn the agenda-driven design label Makers With Agendas, addressing matters of society to create meaningful products.
Among other awards and recognition, Julien received the Henning Larsen Prize in 2003 and the Eckersberg medal in 2005, the Maaskant Award in 2009, and the Prix Dejean in 2014 from the French Academy of Architecture. He has been a guest lecturer in numerous venues worldwide and a professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and the University of Kentucky and currently teaches at MIT (Cambridge, USA) and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His work is published and exhibited internationally.
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One more premiere this year!
The event series Architects, not Architecture will hold its first edition in Belgium. Every architect knows famous buildings – but do you know the people, who designed and built them? Who are they, and how did they become what they are today? You will find the answers, and a lot more, at AMUZ on November 21.
The concept is always the same and has already inspired thousands of people in different cities. Architects, not Architecture or “AnA” – as the name suggests – provides a glimpse into the biography of great personalities of architecture. The event series is not about the projects of the architects, but about them as individuals, their professional backgrounds and formative individual experiences that shaped the works we all know. This provides new perspectives and inspires on a more personal level. Come to AMUZ and discover a new kind of event series.
On 21st November, two well-known Belgian architects and one special guest are going to talk about their personal experiences and important creative periods in their lives and, as always at “AnA“, not a word may be lost about their projects:
– Michiel Riedijk, co-founder Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Rotterdam, www.neutelings-riedijk.com
– Christine Conix, co-founder CONIX RDBM Architects, Antwerp, www.conixrdbm.com
– Julien De Smedt, founder JDS Architects, Copenhagen/Brussels, www.jdsa.eu
The event will be held in English.
This event is kindly supported by our partners Schüco Belgium, BoConcept, JUNG and FSB.
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