In our latest invited Keynote lectures we are joined by the architect and educator Jo Taillieu. Jo’s work is rooted in a playful, rigorous and generous thought about how things are made, and the possibilities that arise when ordinary things might be reconsidered with fresh sight.

He is Professor of architecture at EPFL (CH), and director and manager of his own office, which he founded his  in 2004, which he has been leading since. The practice evolved in 2009 to a collaboration with Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck, with whom he lead the office architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (advvt) for a decade. In 2018 advvt won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant at the 16th Biennale of Venice and was one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019. From this point Jo reverted to his sole practice. This lecture will be his first in the UK about the work he has done since then.

https://jotaillieu.com