Huiswerk Architecten (Antwerp)
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 6:30pm, Forum
Introduced by William Mann.
Part of the Four Flemish Architects series.
Huiswerk Architecten (Antwerp) was founded in 2001 by Dirk Somers (born 1976) and Erik Wieërs (born 1963). Dirk Somers studied architecture at the Henry van de Velde Instituut in Antwerp and the Politecnico di Milano. In 2002 he completed a postgraduate degree in Urban and Environmental Planning at KULeuven and since 2003 has acted as a lecturer in Architectural Design at the TU Delft. Erik Wieërs studied at the Hoger Architectuur Instituut, Antwerp before undertaking an MA in Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Brussels. In 1992 he was a founding member of META Architectuurbureau. In 2008 Huiswerk completed a competition winning police station in Schoten.
