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.

For our next special conference on concrete, we are pleased to welcome Rudy Ricciotti. An architect and engineer, winner of the National Architecture Grand Prix, and Gold Medal of the Academy of Architecture, Rudy Ricciotti is representative of the generation of architects who combine creative power with a true construction culture.

A pioneer and ambassador of concrete, he sublimates innovative concrete structures in many outstanding buildings such as the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) in Marseille, the Arkéa Arena (formerly known as the Bordeaux Métropole Arena), the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum, the FRAC (regional contemporary art collection) in Caen, but also with the Footbridge of Peace in Seoul or, closer to us, the La Boverie Museum in Liège.

His dual training as an engineer and architect is echoed in his work where technological innovation is used to get back to the primal qualities of architecture.

As a proponent of local architecture, he wishes to produce architecture that tells a story and shares feelings about a territory. His preferred material to that end is concrete -- the source of a responsible economy, one which requires absolute mastery for specialized work of great complexity.

A tireless polemist, Rudy Ricciotti is also the author of numerous books and pamphlets.

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