Lionel Devlieger

Lionel Devlieger is an architectural engineer and historian. He is a cofounder of Rotor, a Brussels-based organization specializing in the study of contemporary material culture.

Rotor fosters debate on issues related to resources, waste, and obsolescence in the building sector through research projects, exhibitions, conferences, and publications. Rotor also coordinates large-scale demolition operations, collaborates on architectural projects, and carries out design projects.

Lionel has taught at universities in Europe and the United States (UC Berkeley, TU Delft, Columbia University, and AA School, among others). He is coauthor of Deconstruction et reemploi (Deconstruction and Reuse) (2018), a reference manual on the reuse of building materials. He also coauthored, with Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, and James Westcott, Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium (2023). Since September 2021, he has been an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, where he teaches, among other subjects, the history of circular design and modern building ecologies.