Researcher
Johan Lagae
- Keywords:Belgian Congo, Colonial History, Architectural History, Construction History, Urban History
- Disciplines:Public history, Architectural history and theory, Studies of regions not elsewhere classified, Critical heritage, Heritage and cultural conservation, Historical sites and landscape heritage, Historiography, Architecture not elsewhere classified, African history, Building engineering not elsewhere classified, Landscape architecture not elsewhere classified
Affiliations
- Department of Architecture and urban planning (Department)
Responsible
From1 Feb 2020 → Today - Department of Architecture and urban planning (Department)
Member
From1 Feb 2020 → Today - Dean's Office of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (Administrative office)
Member
From1 Feb 2001 → 30 Jun 2001 - Department of Architecture and urban planning (Department)
Member
From1 Feb 1994 → Today
Projects
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- Writing and drawing the coexisting landscapes of Nanhai in the Pearl River Delta, from empire to People’s Republic.From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Architecture (de)mobilized: (Digital) explorations of the Belgian military building site.From13 Nov 2023 → 12 Mar 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Constructing transport architecture in West Africa. A multi-scalar history of materialities, territories and actors (CTRAAF)From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Interior(ized) Frontiers. Spatializing colonial housing politics and domestic cultures in the former Dutch East Indies through a mobilization of the 'colonial archive’From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction HistoryFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO EOS
- ArchHiv. An Archeology of Aids in Paris. Spaces, memories and viral sequences around the former Hôpital Claude Bernard.From1 Sep 2021 → TodayFunding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- Borders, Mobilities and Landscapes. Mapping railway infrastructure in (post)colonial AfricaFrom1 Jan 2021 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: VLIR-UOS Global Minds
Publications
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- Educating the colonial spouse or pushing the agenda of tropical modernism in the Belgian Congo? Architecture and the coloniser’s house in the pages of the Bulletin de l’Union des Femmes Coloniales(2022)Series: Routledge studies in cultural histories
Authors: Johan Lagae, Alice Santiago Faria, Anne Shelley, Sandra Ataíde Lobo
Pages: 130 - 157 - African modernism and its afterlives(2022)
Authors: Nina Berre, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae
- History matters : authenticity and cultural guardianship(2022)Series: Basics
Authors: Johan Lagae, Philippe Meuser, Adil Dalbai
Pages: 138 - 143 - Epilogue : Buildings and people : interdisciplinarity, juxtaposition and experimentation(2022)
Authors: Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae, Nina Berre
Pages: 330 - 355 - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)(2021)
Authors: Claudien Mulimilwa, Johan Lagae, Nicolas-Patience Basabose, Andrew Brose, Karine Guillevic, Stefan Krapp, Claudia Kruschwitz, Jean Molitor, Z. S. Strother, Rolf Westerheide, et al.
Pages: 232 - 313 - History matters : authenticity and cultural guardianship(2021)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Philipp Meuser, Adil Dalbai
Pages: 160 - 165 - Infrastructuur, stedelijke landschappen en architectuur : sporen van ‘ontwikkeling’ of instrumenten van ‘exploitatie’?(2020)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu, Idesbald Goddeeris, Amandine Lauro, Guy Vantemsche
Pages: 172 - 185 - Infrastructure, paysages urbains et architecture : témoins du 'développement' ou instruments d’une 'mise en valeur'?(2020)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu, Idesbald Goddeeris, Amandine Lauro, Guy Vanthemsche
Pages: 183 - 195 - Coloniser/décoloniser l’espace : le paysage urbain de Kinshasa : entre histoire et mémoire(2020)Series: Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities
Authors: Johan Lagae, Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu, Elikia M'Bokolo
Pages: 273 - 290 - Ruashi, a Pessac in Congo? On the design, inhabitation, and transformation of a 1950s neighborhood in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo(2020)
Authors: Sofie Boonen, Johan Lagae, Martina Ciganikova, Kirsten Rüther, Daniela Waldburger, Carl-Philipp Bodenstein
Pages: 66 - 97