Studium Generale - Bart Hollanders, Eagles of architecture

Eagles of Architecture makes drawings and works on projects out of a desire to play rather than out of a sense of entrepreneurship. For each design it develops a set of playing rules which are sometimes passed on to a following project, sometimes not. The ambition to work in a group is clear from the plural in the name, but the following explicit singular reveal that this collaboration is not open-ended. Shared convictions hold the group together. They are reflected in the game like genetic characteristics that are passed on from one generation to the next without reaching the surface. This self-conscious atavism connects the group with old masters and distinguishes them from uninitiated contemporaries even though they themselves are also often looking. 

Bart Hollanders is a Belgian architect, educator and researcher. He is the founder of the Antwerp-based architecture practice Eagles of Architecture, which is renowned for its research-driven design approach, placing drawing, architectural history and experimentation at the heart of its work.