Bio
Ilke Kerkhofs obtained her master’s degree in architecture at the University of Antwerp in 2022 with her master thesis ‘Affordable Housing, an exploration in Antwerp’. After this, she did several internships in architecture practices based in France.
Since the academic year 2024-2025, Ilke has been appointed full-time as a mandate-assistant at the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp, where she combines doctoral research with educational support in the architecture program of the faculty.
Her research focuses on the right on adequate housing, renovation needs within the climate transition and the potential role of the architect.
Favourite (interior)architecture project
Since her Erasmus exchange in Paris, Ilke developed a continuing fascination for the city by walking through its arrondissements. Its public spaces compensate the small individual living surfaces of the inhabitants. Parisians are innovative in claiming the squares, parks and streets to dance, picknick, meet, sport. As a visitor, you encouter many spatial surprises.
Contact & Links
Mutsaardstraat 31 - 2000 Antwerpen - België
ilke.kerkhofs@uantwerpen.be
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