Past Present Future II: Freek Persyn

51N4E, a 35-person architecture firm based in Brussels, was founded in 1998 and is led by two partners, Freek Persyn and Johan Anrys. Persyn recounts in the "Past" clip a number of important early projects and places, including an allotment project that was met with opposition from other architects. He uses 51N4E's office, where the interview was recorded, as an example of the firm's "Present," which illustrates how they set up the conditions for a variety of projects. Persyn sees the "Future" of the firm and the profession by seeing the architect less as an author of buildings based on a brief, and more as a mediator between people through temporary occupations and other experiences.

Watch the interviews below or on Itinerant Office's Vimeo page.