Hera Van Sande

Hera graduated as a civil engineer architect from the University of Ghent in 1991 and also taught there after her studies from 1993 to 2001. Since 1993, she has been working as an independent architect with her agency JUNO architects.

She travelled around Japan as part of doctoral research on Japanese modernism and was a researcher at Shibaura Kogyo University in Tokyo. In 2008, her research “Kunio Maekawa. A Japanese Modernist in search for architectural identity” earned her the degree of doctor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Hera collaborated with Japanese architect Toyo Ito on the pavilion on the bridge in Bruges in 2004 and on the competition for library de Krook in Ghent in 2010.

Currently, Hera teaches in the master’s programme in architectural engineering at Free University of Brussels and the master’s programme in architecture at KU Leuven.

Besides her work as artistic director of the non-profit organisation Archipel, she is also a recurring author for the well-known Tokyo-based architectural magazine A+U and is a member of the artistic committee of the Belgian magazine A+.