Harold Fallon

Harold Fallon is a Belgian civil engineer and architect from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium, who also studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and KU Leuven (Belgium). After graduating in 2001, he co-founded the architecture office AgwA in Brussels, working on a wide variety of public buildings, infrastructures and public spaces. AgwA’s work is published and exhibited internationally. With his thesis “Metarbitrariness: AgwA, an architecture of practice”, he obtained a PhD in Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2013, supported by KU Leuven where he was teaching and researching since 2007. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of KU Leuven, where he teaches design studios engaging circularity and sustainable design as a critical tool to address socially relevant topics such as vacant buildings, social housing, and collective memory spaces. In 2019, he co-founded “Architecture in Practice”, a research group at KU Leuven and an interuniversity research platform, focusing on the interactions between architecture practices, academic research, and alternative narrative strategies. He is co-founder and editor of Practices in Research, a journal and conference for practice-based research in architecture, as well as the book series In Practice. Fallon is married to Evelia Macal. He is fluent in Spanish and has a profound knowledge of the Salvadoran context.

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