Authorship and the Open-ended Nature of Circular Architecture

Abstract

The projects presented in this book embody a transition in the architecture of Brussels, a change in attitude that has been accompanied by the development of a new architectural expression. Observable shifts in what might be described as the architect’s signature have begun to reveal the ways in which circular practices of adaptive reuse are challenging and redefining the notion of authorship. The making of architecture is an inherently collective act, a work of many hands and minds in which it is impossible to distinguish every individual contribution. If authorship in architecture is already blurred, an emerging array of practices that take concepts of circularity and adaptive reuse as their starting points are blurring it even further.