Staff

Prof. Paul Vermeulen is a partner in the Ghent-based firm De Smet Vermeulen architecten and an architectural writer. He was a professor of architectural criticism at Catholic University Leuven, a design studio mentor at KU Leuven and TU Delft, a lecturer and a visiting critic in architecture schools in Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland. In 2011, he was awarded the biannual Award of the Flemish Community for Architecture. De Smet Vermeulen architects works in a multitude of fields and scales, ranging from interior to urban design and policy support, with highlights on renewal and collaborations with artists. The office looks beyond the confines of the project - architecture is bottom-up urbanism - and pays attention to the long term - building must be sustainable. 

Drs. Ir. Eireen Schreurs is an architect at SUBoffice architects, teaches at the St. Lucas in Ghent and is currently a phd fellow at the KU Leuven with a dissertation on Material Culture, or how materials acquire meaning. In her work as designer, researcher and teacher her interest lies in ‘the existing’ in the broadest sense: formally, socially but also materially, and how this can instigate new forms of architecture.

Dr. Leeke Reinders is an anthropologist who explores new ways of thinking, sensing and doing the city. In his research, writing and education his main interests are the anthropology of urban space as it relates to issues such as the meaning of home and community, the intersections of public, private and parochial space, narrative cartography and the relations between architecture and the everyday.  

Ir. Elsbeth Ronner runs architecture practice LRvH since 2010. The projects focus on narrative architecture working in the field of public space as well as private houses. The office conducts both research in this direction and works on the design of objects and buildings. Architectural discourse is a key element in the work through publishing in different media.