Architect Day: JDS

Founder of PLOT office in 2001, Julien De Smedt founded his own firm in 2006, continuing to develop his high quality projects.

Julien De Smedt was born in 1975 in Brussels, attended schools in Paris, Los Angeles and London where he received his degree from the Bartlett School of Architect in 2000. Julien worked in Rotterdam for Rem Koolhaas and OMA. A year later he moved to Copenhagen where he established the office called PLOT in partnership with his colleague at OMA, Bjarke Ingels. The firm quickly attained success with the repercussions of their projects worldwide.

Architect Day: JDS
Copenhagen Harbour Bath, Denmark. photo © jdsa.eu

In 2006 the office was splited, forming the JDS Julien De Smedt and BIG from Bjarke Ingels. The following year the office of Julien received his first major project, when win the competition Ski Jump of Holmenkollen in Oslo. Today the firm has over 50 professionals into escritorioss in Copenhagen, Brussels and Belo Horizonte in Brazil.

Maritime Youth House, Denmark

Architect Day: JDS
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VM House, Copenhagen, Denmark

Architect Day: JDS
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Helsingør Psychiatric Hospital, Denmark

Architect Day: JDS
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“The Gang” School, Copenhagen, Denmark

Architect Day: JDS
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Hedonistic Rooftop Penthouses, Copenhagen, Denmark

Holmenkollen Ski Jump, Oslo, Norway

About the author

My name is Marcelo Seferin, I’m an architect from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I’m the chief architect at Seferin Arquitetura, an office that works with architecture, interior design and sustainability projects. You can check our work at http://www.seferin.com.br and you can follow me at twiiter http://www.twitter.com/mseferin.