Do we really have to build something new?

Abstract

An interview with Jo Taillieu on reusing existing builings and the aesthetic and practical implications of the fragmentary on his design process – A group of students from RWTH Aachen University had travelled Flanders to visit some of the projects by the acclaimed practice De Vylder Vinck Taillieu as part of a design studio on adaptive reuse taught by Tim Scheuer, Anke Naujokat, and Felix Martin. On a sunny day in November, we met Jo Taillieu at his recently completed Café Paddenbroek near Brussels.