Gideon Boie

Gideon Boie is an architect-philosopher, co-founder of the BAVO collective and visiting professor at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture. His research focuses on the political dimension of art, architecture and urban planning. He teaches, together with Lieven De Cauter, the master’s courses Criticism & Ethics and Architecture & Activism.

BAVO’s research into the architecture of psychiatry received international recognition with the PC Caritas project – see Unless Ever People (Flanders Architecture Institute, 2018) with architecten de vylder vinck taillieu. Other publications include the edited volumes: Urban Politics Now: Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City (NAi010 Publishers, 2007) and Cultural Activism Today: The Art of Over-Identification (Episode Publishers, 2007). Recent publications are the edited volume Living in Monnikenheide: Care, Inclusion and Architecture (Flanders Architecture Institute, 2023) and Discursive Architecture: Tactics for Critical Intervention in the Work of BAVO (nai010, 2024).