External Advisory Board Report May 2026

This report summarizes the External Advisory Board’s (EAB) main observations and recommendations following their introduction and visit to the KU Leuven Department of Architecture (DA) in spring 2026. It takes its departure from the initial questions put forward by the DA and the EAB recommendations are formed within the framework of a dialogue.<br/><br/>The DA faces some major challenges, which are the background conditions in which it operates. Fully addressing these structural ambiguities, which concern governance, accountability, operational ownership and the distribution of responsibilities across campuses and faculties, require radical longer-term restructuring that go beyond communicational or cultural issues. Any solutions will have major organizational and financial implications for campus planning and central staffing resources and will necessitate engaging the embedded traditions of the university (e.g. the model of research groups built round professorial staff, which creates ‘silos’ and exacerbates some of the poor working practices/failures of communication that are here subjects of concern). While resolution of these challenges goes beyond the remit and timescale of the EAB, these seem vital to acknowledge and address for institutional future proofing.

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