Terre Neuve, Bxl © Anouk Maupu
Savonnerie, Bxl © Filip Dujardin
The Brussels-based architecture and urban planning firm MDW cultivates the art of craftsmanship and bespoke design from within a former sewing workshop that now brings together about twenty collaborators. The practice synthesizes the technical, financial, political, and social dimensions of architecture today — seeing performance not only as a matter of standards, but also of their interpretation through use. Rooted in its Brussels territory, MDW draws on a local capacity for negotiation and collective intelligence, essential to transforming, repairing, and making the Capital Region more inclusive. From the archetype of the Brussels townhouse—a flexible structure that allows for both individual and collective scenarios—MDW operates a soft urban factory, at the forefront of sustainability, expressiveness, livability, and creativity. MDW creates a kind of “house architecture”—both organic and organized—whose purpose is as much to care as to empower, to strengthen bonds as to create new ones: with the living world, with what came before, and with those yet to come.
AHA refined MDW’s positioning and designed its new website in collaboration with Paul Gacon, graphic and web designer. mdw-architecture.com/about
