Hello! Since a couple of weeks I'm working for a non-profit organization SUPERNOVa (created in 1999). It aims at offering a platform to a not well-known group of young Belgian architects to inform about their activities. Supernova created a web site, where young architects can present their work or their web site on. In Belgium the platform works really well, so we aim to enlarge it to an European scale with the help of the ideas and the contacts of the Easa national contacts.

The first years after graduating, architects are rarely remarked by the outside world. Their work does not get a chance in public discussions about contemporary architecture and their projects do not get a lot of attention from the architectural world, the public and the media. A platform that highlights the unknown and unlisted work or work in progress of young architects, lacks. We may expect, though, that this generation will educate itself and will soon influence the architectural landscape. Therefore it seems necessary to accent this generation, to draw the attention of the media and to give them a forum by which they can promote themselves.

An overview of the work of young architects will add other accents to and will undoubtedly enlarge the portrayal of architecture that nowadays rules. At the same time such an overview will stimulate a debate about contemporary, up-to-date architecture. To have a really fundamental debate, it is necessary that young architects can participate in the forming of a vision on architecture and that their work is a subject of discussion.

And therefore we need your help!

We would like to get in touch with a lot of young architects or architect students who have already at their disposal a web site, and who are interested in being part of supernova. If you are an artist, a designer, a member of an institute or an organization and you want to be linked to the SUPERNOVa web site, please feel free to fill in the application form you can find at www.supernova.be

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If you are an architect or an urban planner who has a web site (or who is planning to make one) and you want to become a node in the SUPERNOVa cloud, please feel free to fill in the same application form on the site.

We also would like to get in touch with your schools and universities who can connect us with other already graduated students. Therefore you can contact us at

SUPERNOVa vzw Warmoesberg 5, Montagne aux Herbes Potagères B - 1000 Brussels Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 503 46 80 Fax: +32 (0)2 503 46 80 e-mail: Supernova.vzw@pi.be

or : margareta04@yahoo.com

MORE INFORMATION? check www.supernova.be

Thank you very much, hope to see you all in Denmark!

margareta