Lunch with an Architect is intended as a forum for reflection and discussion to improve the quality of architecture in Brussels. Through 3 meetings a year, Lunch with an Architect, in cooperation with Flagey, provides the real estate world with a window on the major contemporary events in the world of architecture, the more specifically Belgian issues, and the emblematic projects under way.

XDGA is an internationally oriented Brussels based office founded by Xaveer De Geyter, practicing architecture, urbanism and landscape design on different scales and levels.
During the twenty years of its existence XDGA has participated in a large number of international competitions allowing the office to build up a portfolio illustrating its approach in architecture and urbanism. Today the office numbers 50 collaborators of 11 different nationalities and has offices in Brussels and Paris.

XDGA projects currently under construction include the subway station and public square Place Rogier in Brussels, the new headquarters for the province of Antwerp, a care centre for the elderly in Antwerp, a housing complex in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris), the regeneration of the entrepot Mac Donald in Paris, and the master plan Paris-Saclay.

XDGA internationally rewarded projects include amongst others, the five housing towers in Breda (Mies Van de Rohe nomination), the Îlot Saint Maurice urban plan in Lille (Prix de l’urbanisme de France), the Elishout Kitchen tower in Brussels (BIGMAT AWARD, Grand International Prize).

The office was also rewarded with the 2013 Belgian Award for Architecture in the category public buildings and Xaveer De Geyter was awarded the Flemish biennial Cultural Award for Architecture 2014. Three travelling solo exhibitions on the work of XDGA have been on view and are accompanied with a publication: 12 Projects, 2001, After-Sprawl, 2002 and since 2013, XDGA_160_Expo.

Recent first placed competitions include the design of the waterfront in Vlora (Albania), the design for the Schuman Square in Brussels and a school building in Ghent.

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