DECLERCK Joackim

Maître Assistant Associé

Champ disciplinaire : Théories et pratiques de la conception architecturale urbaine (TPCAU)

PFE

FORMATION :

Ingénieur Civil en Architecture et Urbanisme

2003-2005, Master of Excellence in Architecture, Berlage Institute, Pays-Bas
1997-2002, Engineer’s Master in Architecture and Urbanism, Magna cum laude, Université de Gand,
Belgique

PARCOURS :

Depuis 2010, en Belgique, Founder and program director of AWB, European centre for innovation in architecture and urbanism.
Depuis 2005, en Belgique, Joachim Declerck bvba, Principal Urban Design, Research and Project Management

2008-2010, aux Pays-Bas, Berlage Institute-CARD, Initiating and Directing of research and contract research activities of CARD

2006-2007, aux Pays-Bas, Berlage Institute, Curator of the third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam on POWER- Producing the Contemporary City (2007) and of the Brussels-Europe Project (exhibitions, publication, symposia)

2005-2006, aux Pays-Bas, Berlage Institute, Assistant Professor, Tutoring Second Year Advanced Research Studio

2003-2002 : Belgium Bunkerhotel Urban Designer, Urban Design Study and Proposal for the Flemish Diamond (conurbation),
presented at 1st International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.

REALISATIONS :

PROJETS PRINCIPAUX

Architecture Workroom Brussels

2010 – 2012 Making City — 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
Curator, member of the Curator Team
In order to rethink planning practices in a concrete manner, the 5th biennale engages
in innovative planning experiments in Sao Paulo, Istanbul and Rotterdam.

2011 – 2012 Innovation Programme – Collective Housing
Program Initiator & Coordinator

2009 – 2011 Building for Brussels. Architecture and Urban Transformation in Europe.
Curator
Research into the role of architecture in urban transformation of European Cities,
presented in the form of an exhibition, documentary film and publication.

Berlage Institute – Centre for Architectural Research and Development

2010 – 2012 Accommodating the Displaced: A New Municipal Housing Service in Diyarbakir
Project supervision
Program funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, with the aim to
equip the local authorities with the capacity to lead urban transformation projects.

2007 – 2010 City Visions Europe - Mechelen (B), Bordeaux (F), Pilzen (CZ), Kosice (SL)
Program Curator
European Exchange Program - EC Culture Program 07-13
www.cityvisionseurope.eu

OASE – Architectural Journal

Member of the Editorial Board, since 2006.
www.oase.archined.nl


Joachim Declerck bvba

2007 – 2009 Kortrijk Xpo
Urban Designer, Project Manager
Masterplan for the extention of Kortrijk Xpo (fair), followed by the design and
construction of the proposed infrastructure, entrance and office buildings, and new
halls (in collaboration with Office KGDVS (Brussels) and BGA (Kortrijk).

EXPOSITIONS

Mar 2011‚ Architecture for Justice’, Brussels (B)
Oct 2010‚ Building for Brussels. Architecture and Urban Transformation in Europe’, Brussels (B)
April 2009‚ City Visions Europe – History and Future of the European City’, Mechelen (B)
Nov 2008‚ Una Visione per Bruxelles’, Academia Belgica, Rome (Italy)
Nov 2007‚ Berlage Institute – Recent Research’, Thessaloniki (Greece)
May 2007 ‘POWER – Producing the Contemporary City’, International Architecture Biennale
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
March 2007 ‘A Vision for Brussels’, Bozar, Brussels (Belgium)
Jan 2005 ‘Tirana Metropolis’, National Art Gallery, Tirana (Albania)

PUBLICATIONS :

Livres
- V. Byvanck, J. Declerck, S. Frausto, Sketches for a National History Museum, Sun Publishers, February 2011
- C. de Baan, J. Declerck, V. Patteeuw (editors), Visionary Power. Producing the Contemporary City, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2007, 296 pages
- P.V. Aureli, B. Borra, J. Declerck, A. Mierzwa, T. Weiss, M. Tattara (editors), Brussels – A Manifesto.
Towards the Capital of Europe, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2007, 240p
- J. Declerck, M. Tattara, T. Weiss, B. Borra (editors), Brussels Capital of Europe, Berlage Institute 2006
- B. Hamfelt, P. Ouwerkerk, J. Declerck (editors), NL© studio, Prototype editions 2005
- J. Declerck, B. Melort, M. Ryan, M. Tattara (editors), Tirana Metropolis, Berlage Institute 2004, 169
pag.

Magazines / Journals
Architecture Workroom Papers 1: Prospective Design and Urban politics, edited by N. Baës, J. Declerck, M. Dehaene, S. Lévy (in preparation
OASE79: The Architecture of James Stirling, edited by J. Declerck, K. Geers, C. Grafe, R. Molendijk, P.P. Tamburelli, T. Vandeputte, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2009
OASE75: 25 Years of Critical Reflection, edited by J. Declerck, F. Geerts, V. Patteeuw & M. Schoonderbeeck, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2008
Emerging Belgian Architecture, thematic issue of World Architecture, edited by J. Declerck, R. Dudal & L. Zhang, WA n°201, 03/2007

Articles
- ‘Krachtige instrumenten voor Stedelijke Vernieuwing’, in Brussel, themanummer S+RO (to be published, June 2011)
- ‘Europa 2020 en Making City’, in Europa, themanummer S+RO, April 2011
- ‘Making City. Towards a New Agenda’, in Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable Future, Megacities
Foundation 2010
- ‘Construire la ville de demain’, in Nouveaux Enjeux Urbains, Cahiers de l’éducation permanente – Politique des Grandes Villes, Novembre 2010
- ‘Emblems of the City after the End of History’, in Visionary Power – Producing the Contemporary City, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2007, p. 284-287
- Review of ‘Flanders Architectural Yearbook 04-05’, with Véronique Patteeuw, in: A+ 205
- ‘Interview with Office (David Van Severen and Kersten Geers)’, Exhibition Catalogue, deSingel and Flemish Architecture Institute, August 2005
- ‘Van realisme naar realiteit. Een toekomst voor de Nederlands architectoniche cultuur. Interview met
Pier Vittorio Aureli en Roemer van Toorn’, in OASE #67: After the Party
- ‘London Olympics. Interview met Alejandro Zaera Polo’, in A+
- ‘Project voor Brussel Hoofdstad van Europa’, in A+
- ‘Monkeys and Architects. Interview with R.E.Somol’, in Hunch 9, September 2005
- ‘BXLEUROP, with contributions by Rem Koolhaas, Alexander D’hooghe, Dieter Lessage, Pieter
Uyttenhove, Francois Thiry, Roeland Dudal and Joachim Declerck’, (edited by Roeland Dudal and
Joachim Declerck), in: De Loeiende Koe, 2003, n° 2
- ‘Cultuur behoeft ruimte’, review of the congress ‘Cultuur wil Ruimte’, in: De Architect, december 2002, p. 13-14
- ‘Review of ‘Flanders Architectural Yearbook 00-01’, in: De Witte Raaf, n° 100, p. 46 (with Dieter Delbaere)
- ‘Field, Places, Urbanity: A Quest for Field Urbanism. Interview with René Boomkens’, in: A+U, “Driving through Belgium II”, n° 393, p. 27-31 (with Dieter Delbaere)

Email :

joackim.declerck@versailles.archi.fr