Haike Apelt is a German architect and educator. She worked for several renowned offices in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland, before moving to Antwerp where she co-founded hama architecten with her partner Marco Arts. Haike currently teaches urban and architectural design at Eindhoven University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her practice is strongly influenced by her academic work which aims to connect analysis and design, theory and practice, and present architecture with that of the past.

With her talk “Lessons” she will address the central role of tradition in contemporary urban architecture. Understanding Giorgio Grassi’s quote “l’architettura sono le architetture” as a quest for continuity, she will illustrate how analogies between past and present solutions in architecture - in which Italy had and continues to have a central role - can be a tool to understand architecture, as well as a tool in the design. She will talk about the central role of tradition in contemporary urban architecture, using a recently built project of her office as a working example.

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