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« Le propre de tout être devenu Humain est sa conscience de l’Autre. »
(S. Leribaux) 

This postulate leads to the studio’s responsible commitment to our present and future environment. Indeed the built and unbuilt realm staging our earthly interactions is mutating, both literally and figuratively: climate change is palpable, nature and resources are impacted, half of the planet’s inhabitants presently lives in urban settings – and these trends show no signs of decelerating. Yet so far we cannot offer a credible solution to the sheer scale of the situation. It is therefore paramount that think modes integrate this changing context to its full extent – and in doing so address the diverse echelons wherein architects and urban planners work hand in hand. Thus cities become a collective body of work in which our fundamental human right to live together with dignity notwithstanding our differences is upheld, where rules are necessary but do not constitute a guaranty of success, and where we are once again put face to face with real circumstances real people and their innate ability to deliver – to get things done.

architectesassoc+ wishes to accompany this evolution by contributing pragmatically to a sustainable environment in all its aspects, aiming at a generous, altruistic reflection shunning sectarianism, where issues such as identity, positive social impact and circular perspectives resonate in angles taken and projects developed.

This is reflected in the team’s broad outlook, essentially tapping into the wealth of exchanges encouraged between all players from design stage to delivery – and equally, into each actor’s respective competencies. Composed of professionals who employ their talents and skills to bring to life novel, flexible, concrete visions in architecture based on their hands-on experience, architectesassoc+ subsequently pushes synergies and collaborations with other essential actors of the building process (engineers, builders, urbanists, scenographers, artists, photographers, etc) to prosper, striving thereby to embrace the inalienable complexity and ambiguity of the world we share today with tomorrow’s children.


In 2000, after having collaborated together for almost a decade, architects Sabine Leribaux and Marc Lacour founded architectesassoc. In 2019, after twelve years of fruitful collaboration with the two founding partners, architects Mattias D’Hooghe, Sophie Vantieghem and Sébastien Zigrand joined the partnership to form architectesassoc+

Team

Sophie Vantieghem

partner architect
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licensed architect ISA saint-luc (presently UCL / LOCI), brussels (2006)
architecture engineering cursus UCL (2000 - 2001)

born on 01.02.1982 in mouscron, belgium

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2006

founding partner architectesassoc⁺ since 2019

FR: mother tongue
NL: conversational
UK: conversational

Mattias D'Hooghe

partner architect
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licensed architect KUL sint-lucas, brussels (2007)
studio assistant KULeuven, brussels - ghent (2021 - ongoing)
graduate in graphic design, artevelde UAS ghent (2002)

born on 30.06.1981 in uccle, belgium

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2007

founding partner architectesassoc⁺ since 2019

NL: mother tongue
FR: fluent
UK: fluent

Sébastien Zigrand

partner architect
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licensed architect ISA saint-luc (presently UCL / LOCI), brussels (2007)
international exchange : McGill University, faculty of engineering, school of architecture of montréal (2006)

born on 10.02.1983 in luxembourg-ville, luxemburg

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2007

founding partner architectesassoc⁺ since 2019

FR: mother tongue
UK: good skills

Thomas Maisin

project architect
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licensed architect ISA saint-luc (presently UCL / LOCI), brussels (2012)
erasmus student at newcastle university (2011)

born on 10.06.1989 in uccle, belgium

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2012

FR: mother tongue
UK: good skills
NL: conversational

Sophie De Toffol

project architect
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licensed architect UCL / LOCI, brussels (2015)
erasmus student at "CEU university San Pablo", madrid, spain (2014)

born in 1991 in Belgium

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2017

FR: mother tongue
UK: good skills
SP: good skills
NL: conversational

Weronika Zukowska

project architect
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licenced architect UCL / LOCI, brussels (2017)
erasmus student at university of Ljubljana, Slovénie (2016)

born on 15.05.1994 in Sokolka, Poland

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2018

FR: bilingual
UK: fluent
NL: conversational
PL: mother tongue

Michael Hoebeke

architect
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licenced architect La Cambre Horta / ULB, brussels (2019)

born in 1996, Belgium

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2019

FR: mother tongue
UK: fluent
NL: mother tongue

Mattia Barilani

architectural collaborator
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licenced architect Politecnico di Milano & Tongji school of architecture of Shanghai (2017)
erasmus student at ENSA Lyon (2014)

born in 1991, Italy

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2020

FR: fluent
UK: fluent
IT: mother tongue
CH: basic

Corentin Gillet

architect
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licenced architect UCL / LOCI, brussels (2019)

born in 1995 in Belgium

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2021

FR: mother tongue
UK: conversationnal

Kaushik Keshava Ramanuja

architect
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licensed architect Belgium, MSc., Sint Lucas School of Architecture, KU Leuven - Ghent campus (2018)
licensed architect India, B.Arch., Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, MU Manipal, India (2012)

licensed architect Belgium, MSc., Sint Lucas School of Architecture, KU Leuven - Ghent campus (2018)
licensed architect India, B.Arch., Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, MU Manipal, India (2012)

born 1988, Hyderabad, India

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2023

UK: Mother Tongue
NL: Working Proficiency
FR: Basic Proficiency
Tamil: Mother Tongue
Kannada: Mother Tongue
Hindi: Native Proficiency
Telugu: Working Proficiency

Xiaolan Vandendries

architect
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licensed architect UCL/LOCI brussels (2021)

licensed architect UCL/LOCI brussels (2021)

born in 1995, China

collaborator at architectesassoc. since 2023

FR: mother tongue
UK: good skills
NL: basic knowledge

Kadir Bostan

architect
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licensed architect La Cambre Horta / ULB, Brussels (2022)
erasmus student at Bilgi University, Istanbul (2021)

licensed architect La Cambre Horta / ULB, Brussels (2022)
erasmus student at Bilgi University, Istanbul (2021)

born in 1997 Brussels

FR: mother tongue
TR: mother tongue
UK: fluent
NL: conversational