Architecture in Belgium, in collaboration with Bozar, invites Ensamble Studio to give a lecture in Brussels on 24 September 2024. 

Ensamble Studio was founded in 2000 by architects Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril. Their approach is innovative, experimenting with construction techniques and proposing new architectural typologies.

The firm focuses on various themes, such as the Anthropocene and prefabrication, as well as the integration of off-site technologies. Some of their most notable projects include Casa Hemeroscopium (Madrid, 2008) and, more recently, Can Terra (Menorca, 2018) and The Tent (Costa de Morte, 2020). They have established a new research and production centre in Madrid, Ensamble Fabrica, to support their ambitious goal of optimising the quality of architecture while making it more affordable.

Ensamble Studio has already received numerous international accolades, such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 2022 and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award 2019.

Debora Mesa is an architecture critic at Harvard GSD and was previously a critic at Pratt GAUD (2021-2022). She held the Ventulett Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech (2018-2022) and was a researcher at MIT (2013-2018), where she co-founded a laboratory for prefabrication prototypes (2012).

As part of the Concrete Design Competition, FEBELCEM is giving away 400 free tickets to the lecture to students. Interested students are invited to reserve their place to take advantage of this offer (student card will be checked at the entrance).