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Alive Architecture

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WHAT? How can space provide for the occupation by people and the occupation by people for alive spaces? WHY? To help people relate to architecture and architecture relate to people. HOW? Reading / Recording situations of connection of space and society. Reading the social, cultural and physical context. Then acting through projects. observe - use - twist becomes a way of designing. Alive Architecture (founded in 2010) is a multidisciplinary platform for experimental architecture and urbanism based in Brussels. Observations of informal occupations lead to inspirations for the construction of use in contemporary design. Petra Pferdmenges has been practicing throughout Europe (ARJM in Brussels, Joseph Llinás in Barcelona, Edouard François in Paris and Architecten Cie in Amsterdam) after completing the international Master at the TU Delft and the Architecture Diploma at the University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Currently she teaches at Sint-Lucas Architectuur in Brussels and ULG in Liege. Publications include Borderconditions (Mark Schonderbeek, Sun, Rotterdam, 2010), L’audace ecologique (Edouard Francois, Sautereau Editeur, Paris, 2009), De Architect: Autonomie & Architectuur (Mark Schonderbeek, Rotterdam, 2007), Nouveaux Albums (Taktyk, topotypes, Paris, 2005), Europan 7 (Finalist, La Grande Archie, Paris, 2004)