About La Vie en Kit
An exciting journey back in time with four adventurous Belgian architects, Simone and Lucien Kroll, Jean Englebert and Paul Petit, who realized experimental housing communities 50 years ago that created a stir in the conservative architecture world. The homes they built together with adventurous residents in Brussels, Liège and Charleroi still look astonishingly modern.Are these experiments a shining example for the current housing crisis?
At AFFR, the film was introduced by Belgian architect Dag Boutsen, and followed by a Q&A between director Elodie Degavre and Charlotte Thomas, editor at De Architect. In the run-up to the festival, De Architect also published an article about the introduction and the film, which can be read here.
About Elodie Degavre
Elodie Degavre is an architect, lecturer, researcher and film director, living and working in Brussels. She is a passionate architect who interprets her profession in the broadest sense. For instance, she teaches architectural design at UCLouvain, where she is also a researcher; before that, she worked as an architect on public projects for several Brussels firms. From her growing interest in “telling the story” of architecture, she regularly writes for the Belgian magazine A+ Architecture. She also wants to make architecture more accessible to non-specialists, which is why she has expanded her field of work to include film writing. With the documentary “Life, Assembled”, she takes a new step towards a wider audience. The documentary also provides space for her intuitive love of writing and photography.
Elodie Degavre was one of the participants in the Film & Architecture Studio, the renowned course that AFFR organises every year together with the Independent School.