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Bio

Sven Sterken is an engineer-architect and professor at the Faculty of Architecture of KU Leuven (formerly Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent), where he studied urban planning, teaches architectural history, and leads a design studio on the repurposing of buildings. His research concerns the building politics of institutional clients such as government institutions, religious bodies and international companies in the post-war context. In 2022 Sven Sterken was a researcher in residence at the CIVA, in the context of a book he is preparing about the Brussels architectural firm of Groupe Structures. In addition to his academic output, Sven Sterken often collaborates with architectural firms for the historical analysis and heritage evaluation of buildings in the context of renovation or repurposing, such as the Herbarium building of the Botanical Garden in Meise (with Archivaria, 2022); the headquarters of the National Bank in Brussels (with Jan De Moffarts/Altstadt, 2020); the former headquarters of the RIZIV (2022), and the Centre Monnaie in Brussels (with Jan De Moffarts/Altstadt, 2019).