Vision
In 2015, when the book 'POLO Architects' was launched, the architectural firm Poponcini & Lootens ir. architecten decided to change its name to POLO Architects.
Today, the duo Mauro Poponcini & Patrick Lootens has evolved into an architectural firm with more than 100 employees working on assignments all over Belgium and abroad: a solid practice with plenty of knowledge, architectural expertise and experience. But also, and more importantly, a beautiful and divers group of colleagues of all ages with 29 years of experience and boldness, an incubator for emerging talent, where everyone can develop their potential and continue to grow. The offices in Antwerp and Brussels are proper workshops, stimulating sanctuaries of skillful play.
In terms of assignments, POLO Architects likes to explore its boundaries and spread its wings: the architects are increasingly and consciously focusing on urban development challenges, master planning and strategic reflection on spatial planning. Furthermore, the firm has made a conscious choice to take on more and more smaller assignments in the cultural and social fields. These designs demonstrate how smaller but carefully designed buildings can be an intellectual stimulus for the firm and a growth opportunity for the designers. The development of an interior design department illustrates this interdisciplinary approach.
POLO Architects is an amalgam: a creative bundle of contradictions with room for large projects (commercial, private, public) as well as (smaller) exceptions and a work ethic driven by powerful designs, creativity and reflection. This urban planning, architecture and interior design firm is familiar with a wide range of scales and programmes - location development, master planning, schools, university buildings, hospitals, cultural centres, industrial buildings, (head) office buildings, commercial properties, housing of all types and sizes, interior design projects and scenography, both new constructions and renovation projects: from cities to chairs, and everything in between. It explicitly demonstrates the ambition to commit and to fully embrace the experiment.
POLO Architects considers the diversity of assignments as something both familiar and challenging, a call for designers to push their boundaries time and again, to give it their best and to rise to the challenge using skill and experience.
POLO Architects is ready to prove itself: always, together, different. A stimulating perspective.
Team

Mauro POPONCINI
prof. ir. architectfounding partner
mp@polo-architects.be

Patrick LOOTENS
ir. architecturban planner
founding partner
pl@polo-architects.be

Patrick BILLIET
ir. architectmanaging director
pb@polo-architects.be

Jascha RONDOU
architectdirector
jr@polo-architects.be

Michiel VERHAVERBEKE
architect, msc.director
mv@polo-architects.be

Marc DORNY
HR & finance directormdo@polo-architects.be

Lieve DE SMET-VAN DAMME
architectbuilding technology consultant

Daisy VAN NUETEN
sr. management assistant

Jef VAN LOOCK
architectproject architect, team coordinator

Bert OOMS
architectproject architect

Jan CANT
architectproject architect, team coordinator

Katrien VAN LOCO
architectproject architect, team coordinator

Sofie Lambert
architectbuilding technology coordinator

Jorn PEETERS
ir. architectproject architect

Bea GEBOERS
interior designer

Ramon ALVAREZ ROA
ir. architect, msc.project architect

Yü CHEN
ir. architect

Valérie RAETS
ir. architect, urban plannerhead of urbanism

Eduardo GARCIA DIAZ
designerteam coordinator

Martin VAN SCHAIK
ir. architectproject architect

An DE DYCKER
graphic designerPR & communication coordinator
add@polo-architects.be

Suresh DEBIDIN
designer

Daan VAN DEN BERGHEN
architectproject architect

Jens VERLEY
ir. architect, project architect

Mattijs CLOET
architectproject architect

Francesca GENTILI
architect

Johannes ROEVENS
visualisation artist

Jill BASTIAENS
administrative assistant

Ana MORENO
architectproject architect

Michelle BOSCHMAN
architect

Mar MALVAR GOMEZ
architect

Sven DE TROCH
architectbuilding technology consultant

Wouter ANTONISSEN
architectproject architect

Joana MELO
architectproject architect

Vincent VAN EYKEN
ir. architectproject architect

David CATALÁ MIÑANA
architect

Louise BRUNET
architect

Patrick PERSOONS
architectproject architect

Tom HUYCKE
interior designer

Hassan HAMZAOUI
designer

Piter IVO
architectproject architect

Magda KIELT
ir. architectproject architect, team coordinator

Lucas VANDENEEDE
architect

Aryani SARI RAHMANTI
urban planner

Peter BAECK
architectproject architect, technology manager

Ana RAFFUL
urban planner

Kim PECHEUR
architectproject architect

Gaetan OP DE BEECK
IT support

Lieselot Vercampt
interior designerteam coordinator

Ellis Christiaens
urban planner

Pedro Araujo
designer

Roberto Genna
architect

Cristian Marian Stoian
architect

Valérie Codesido López
ir. architect

Wim Crombez
architectproject architect, team coordinator

Floor Wetemans
marketing & communication coordinator

Julie Chiappino
tender coordinator

Laura Rombaut
architectBIM model manager

Glenn Lyppens
urban planner

Pieter Vercampt
architectproject architect

Philip Lefèbvre
architectproject architect

Jens Vermeiren
interior designer

Mladen Stilinovic
urban planner

Damián Smetanka
designer

Mario Vera Sáez
designer

Xavier Dewulf
BIM modeller

Souhaila Isnari
administrative assistant

Macarena Ainsa Sánchez
designer

Gaetana Poponcini
PR & communication assistant

Nana Lambregs
contract coordinator

Ivo Janssen
designer

Rudi Van Thienen
BIM manager

Elsie De Vos
BIM developer

Lucie Roy
architectproject architect

Laura Alvarez Noval
designer

Pascaline Lannoo
ir.architectproject architect

Gildo Incitti
designer

Tiago Leitão
architect

Hanne Lejeune
interior designer

Alejandra Cruz Garcia
designer

Eleonora Zudich
designer

Michail Katopodis
architectproject architect, team coordinator

Liesbeth Beernaert
architect

Alexandru Poliac
designer

Nick Van den Broeck
visualisation artist

Hadiseh Asgari
architect

Andy Windey
BIM modeller

Martina Cesarini
designer

Valentine Gruwez
ir. architectproject architect

Maurann Lootens
architectBIM model manager

Yoshi De Moor
BIM modeller

Mariya Frantseva
BIM modeller

Seda Masaeva
architect

Bram Iven
architect

Guido Bruzzi
designer

Azul Klix
designer

Alberto Bovo
designer

Ana-Maria Lungu
designer

Nicolas Ronchetti
designer

Alex Xueyan Feng
designer

Louize Bogaerts
architectproject architect

Cindy Durdin
BIM model manager

Vincent Kaptein
ir. architectproject architect

Olivier Leemans
finance coordinator

Emma Bresseleers
tender coordinator

Aidan Hermans
designer

Nele Hanssens
interior designer

Sam Vander Elst
architect

Sandra Reynders
BIM model manager

Inês Lourenço
architect

Adeline Thys
architect

Florence Vermeersch
architect

Ioana Cojocaru
designer

Luis Pérez Bellis
designer

Teodor-Cristian Dascălu
designer

Karolien Nizet
designer

Arthur Mestdagh
designer

Stefan Devillé
ir. architectprojectarchitect

Miguel Vanleene
ir. architect, urban planner

Julie Lanen
BIM modeller