“Still”: AgwA Lecture in Fribourg

Benoît Vandenbulcke, from the AgwA office, is invited on Thursday, April 23, 2026, to the Fribourg School of Engineering and Architecture as part of the architecture program’s lecture series.

His talk, Still, offers a reading of the agency’s practice through its transformation projects, which form a central axis of its work and resonate particularly within the Belgian context. Working with existing structures involves engaging in a dialogue with what is already there—what endures—rather than seeking to break free from it.

From this perspective, architecture no longer appears as an entirely new gesture, but as an intervention embedded within continuity. Transformations unfold in a kind of apparent stillness—still—where things evolve while remaining. Working with the existing thus softens the idea of an ideal, original, or definitive project.

Buildings are understood as evolving realities, already shaped by successive adaptations. AgwA’s interventions are part of this long temporality: they extend a history rather than replace it, while incorporating the possibility of future transformations.