Born in 1977 in Brussels, Belgium, David Tajchman studied architecture at Univerisité Libre de Bruxelles – Institut Victor Horta and at The Bartlett School of Architecture. He has been living in Brussels, London and Paris. After having worked as project leader for several architecture and design practices including Dominique Perrault, Jacques Ferrier, Stéphane Maupin and Patrick Jouin, he founded his own architecture agency in 2009 simultaneously in Paris and Brussels.
Teaching and lecturing experiences include a permanent position as Professor at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris (2011 > present) and Tutor with Sir Peter Cook (2009 > 2010), guest lecturer at Institut Supérieur d'Architecture Victor Horta in Brussels and The Centre for Contemporary Architecture in Budapest. He is a guest professor leading workshops at LTH Lunds University in Sweden.
David Tajchman's works have been widely published and shown all over the planet. The agency focuses on innovative, original, different and inventive projects. Working at all scales, from urban design to product design, from the city scale to the furniture element, every proposal would be a specific response to the clients needs, site location and cultural background.
ARCHITECTURES DAVID TAJCHMAN has developed a strong and complex approach of making, through international competitions with several shortlisted entries gaining worldwide recognition and interest. Every project starts with a narrative fiction on the project, derived into three-dimensional visuals telling the specific atmospheric and aesthetic perspectives, together achieving a form finding, bearing in mind that the computer files are also used to build physical and experimental models using rapid prototyping techniques, ending with the imagined building as a well thought and tested prototype. The new crafts are now combined with industrial processes, changing and influencing architectural ways of productions on both creative and building aspects. This could sound futuristic, not that much: industrial design uses those techniques for a long time now, we are just adapting the scale to envision the future differently.