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.

In 1985 Dietmar Eberle and Carlo Baumschlager found an architectural firm in Vorarlberg, Austria. The ideas of the Vorarlberger wood craftsmen were influential in the earlier phase of the firm. Social responsibility, economics, husbanding of resources and social acceptance are cornerstones of what goes into planning. Research at the level of the building and façade type, flow as a formative moment in the method of the firm.

The firm is systematically built up on an international level in the 1990s. Projects like the headquarters for Munich Reinsurance and the Vienna airport building attract attention and recognition beyond the borders of Austria.

In addition to the start-up office in Lochau in 1999 a subsidiary is founded in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. In 2001 Vienna is added. The 21st century begins a period of rapid growth. Offices are set up in St. Gallen (2006), Zurich (2007), Hong Kong (2008), Berlin (2010), Hanoi (2011), Paris (2012), Hamburg (2013), and subsidiaries in Saigon (2015) and Shanghai (2016) are created. Along with the ongoing internationalization, Baumschlager Eberle Architekten is organized as a holding company. The firm is currently active and present in twelve locations in Europe and Asia. Architecture in each location is the result of intensive and manifold teamwork. There are 203 employees from 21 countries speaking 19 languages in the offices.

For Baumshlager Eberle, good architecture is defined by the context and a good building is always an expression of dealing with the location at hand. That becomes clear in various degrees in a selection of projects: la Maison du Savoir in Luxembourg, the Courthouse in Caen, the Imperia Sky Garden in Hanoi and the future Headquarters of BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels.

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