Bovenbouw Architectuur

Bovenbouw Architectuur is an Antwerp practice led by Dirk Somers, a professor and head designer working with a team of 23 architects. The office calls its approach open-minded and untimely, freed from the compulsion to be avant-garde, and resists a fixed signature: it looks for a style specific to each situation, blending everyday and enduring ideas in a classical sense.

The built work moves between cultural buildings such as MHKA and Beursschouwburg, housing and apartment blocks, schools, care campuses, police offices, and public spaces including the recycling parks and squares built around Antwerp. Projects have been exhibited in Venice, Munich, Mendrisio, Aachen, London and Antwerp.