Name: Lecture by Smout Allen: SUPER-MEGA
Start: 2025-10-07T18:30:00+02:00
Location: LUCA Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst Gent

Everyone is welcome to join us for the Going Public lecture by Smout Allen (UK)
"SUPER-MEGA"
Date: 07/10/ 2025, 6.30 PM
Location: Alexianenplein 1, Auditorium A4
Lecture in English
+ Open Bar
Please register via https://arch.kuleuven.be/events/lecture-smout-allen
Professor Mark Smout and Professor Laura Allen (www.smoutallen.com) are based at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where they both teach Architectural Design and co-direct its Landscape Architecture Masters programmes. Through their design research practice, Smout Allen, they explore architecture’s relationship with environmental and territorial change. Their teaching supports diverse, speculative agendas that bridge architecture with the humanities, sciences, and arts. Exhibited internationally, including at four Venice Architecture Biennales, their work combines conceptual design with innovative representation and passive systems. Their students (Unit 11) regularly receive major awards, and their collaborations span institutions such as MIT, the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries, the British Council, and Williams F1 to name but a few. Their practice has designed exhibitions for the Wellcome Institute, the V&A and the Tate. They have won the Architecture Award from the Royal Academy and have been presented with Honorary Fellowships from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in recognition of their contribution to teaching and the profession.
This lecture examines two of our recent projects, ‘Rescue Lines’(Commissioned for the 2021 Venice Biennale) and ‘Super-Mega-Ruralistic’, a speculative design project that rethinks industrialized landscapes as adaptive, interdependent systems.