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Nik Vandewyngaerde

Nik Vandewyngaerde

Basel, CH

 

About 

I graduated at the Catholic university of Leuven as an engineer architect. I grew up in Belgium, but moved to Switzerland to work for the firm Herzog & de Meuron. I chose to be an architect because I believe that Architecture has an important social component as we are able to create relationship between people and space. I think that nowadays architecture is mainly driven by financial tendencies that don’t built for the people that actually live there, let stand building for the quality of the urban tissue. That is why my live goal is to create architecture that serves a future common heritage, that could be timeless and accepted by many generations to come.

- Nik Vandewyngaerde

Elsewhere:

Employment 

Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, CH, Intern

Aug 2017 - current
 

Bogdan & Van Broeck Architects, Brussels, BE, summer intern

Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
 

Education 

KU Leuven, Leuven, BE, MArch, Engineering architecture

Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
 

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, IT, Athens exchange program

Redefining the Modern Architectural Heritage

Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
 

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, IT, Athens exchange program

Weak experiment. Landscape strategies for shrinking cities.

Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
 

KU Leuven, Leuven, BE, BArch, Engineering architecture

Sep 2012 - Jun 2015
 

Areas of Specialization