The talk is part II of a “Next Gen” concept, developed by CAFx and VELUX, where architects of younger offices each select a dogma within mainstream architecture practice and thinking that they want to challenge. This selection motivates them to tell about why and how they are challenging the so-called dogma and why it is necessary to renew the architecture profession. Over the year, we will invite ten younger Danish and international architectural studios challenging the status quo in architecture practice and pushing the boundaries towards a more regenerative methodology.

Based in Brussels, Rotor is a cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment. They develop critical positions through research and design and have among others done the exhibition and book project “Behind the Green Door Architecture and the Desire for Sustainability”. Besides projects in architecture and interior design, Rotor also produces exhibitions, books, economic models and policy proposals and runs Rotor Deconstruction, a cooperative that organises the reuse of construction materials, dismantling, processing and trading salvaged building components.

Rotor will be represented by architect Maarten Gielen, co-founder and partner of Rotor in 2006, where he currently works as a designer, researcher and manager. In the dogma talk Maarten Gielen will address the following question: What if it was as easy for architects to reuse materials as getting new materials?

Rotor’s participation is kindly supported by Hub Brussels.  

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