Isabel Verhaeghe

Architecture Teaching Fellow, Fall 2024

Isabel is an architect and urban planner, who graduated in Engineering Sciences: Architecture from KU Leuven in 2022 and in Urbanism, Landscape & Planning from KU Leuven in 2024. As part of her education, she participated in a fieldworkshop and design studio in Bac Lieu (Vietnam) and she had the opportunity to pursue an internship at STOSS Landscape Urbanism in Boston (USA). Furthermore, she was part of the curator team for ‘Day of Architecture’ organized by the Flemish Architecture Institute in 2023. Isabel is currently pursuing a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Tulane School of Architecture where she serves as an instructor in an undergraduate urban studio teaching team. As a researcher, she is interested in exploring landscapes of social and racial inequality, landscapes of artificial drought and landscapes that will disappear as a consequence of global warming. She hopes to achieve a better understanding in the specificities and precarities of settling in these contexts in order to design equitable social spaces set by ecological processes and strongly tied to the history of a place and its people.