In 1927 Anna Wagner Keichline, architect, inventor, suffragist, and World War 1 special agent, applied successfully for a patent for a hollow wall clay brick.
The ‘K’ Brick, by removing physical mass from the centre of the structural wall depth, reduced the weight of external walls by 50%, it allowed for taller buildings, speedier construction, utilised less raw resources and was simpler and quicker to make.
Anna Wagner Keichline had wonderfully succeeded in the often ignored and neglected enterprise of making something better by removing, rather than adding.

STUDIO

The BUILTNOTHING studio will investigate architectural solutions that are paradoxically made better through a focus on what is not present.

The studio is a collaboration between the KULeuven Department of Architecture, the BUILTNOTHING ADO (Academic Design Office)
and Visiting Professor Doug Allard from the Brussels architectural practice XDGA. The work carried out in the studio will be showcased on this website.