Panel Conversation: Detail Makes the Difference

Stephan Petermann and Aurélie Hachez join their fellow architects and critics to discuss whether detail could be the key to ‘difference’.

Editors Stephan Petermann (Architecture in the Netherlands) and Aurélie Hachez (A+) will speak with architect Job Floris (Monadnock) and Eline Dehullu (editor in chief of A+) about details as a possible key to “making a difference” in Europe’s increasingly uniform architecture.

This event brings together architects who grew up in an integrated Europe to reflect on how they push back against the growing European sameness described by Stephan Petermann in his essay “Are We Still Relevant?”, published in the Dutch Architecture in the Netherlands yearbook 2024/2025.

In the themed issue that architect Aurélie Hachez edited for A+, she focuses on “the small, the precise, the careful: the constructive detail as a thought process and as a bearer of meaning, beauty, and craftsmanship.”

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For almost 40 years, Architecture in the Netherlands has provided an indispensable overview, with independent editors presenting unique projects completed in the previous year that describe developments in Dutch architecture.

The Belgian architecture magazine A+ shapes and fuels discourse on contemporary Belgian architecture, urban planning and landscape design, reflecting on the architect’s ever-changing role and responsibilities.

This discussion has been organised in partnership with nai010 publishers and A+, as part of the Exchange in Practice programme.

Photo credit: BC architects, Manchester, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek.

In his essay in the 39th yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands, architect, Volume magazine editor-in-chief and yearbook co-editor Stephan Petermann describes the increasing uniformity of European architecture. In the themed issue that she edited for *A+*, architect Aurélie Hachez focuses on “the small, the precise, the careful: the constructive detail as a thought process and as a bearer of meaning, beauty, and craftsmanship.” In this event, Petermann and Hachez will talk to several architects who grew up in an increasingly connected Europe. Can they make a difference in their designs with their eye for detail?

For almost 40 years, *Architecture in the Netherlands* has provided an indispensable overview, with independent editors presenting unique projects completed in the previous year that describe developments in Dutch architecture. The Belgian architecture magazine *A+* shapes and fuels discourse on contemporary Belgian architecture, urban planning and landscape design, reflecting on the architect’s ever-changing role and responsibilities. This discussion has been organised in partnership with nai010 publishers and *A+*, as part of the Exchange in Practice programme.