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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 → 31 Mar 2024Funding: 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
21 - 30 of 85
- Scenes of Amani, Tanzania : biography of a postcolonial landscape(2017)
Authors: Astrid Ghyselen, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae, Peter E. Mangesho
Pages: 6 - 17 - Nomadic furniture in the ‘Heart of Darkness’ : colonial and postcolonial trajectories of modern design artifacts to and from tropical Africa(2017)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Fredie Floré, Cammie McAtee
Pages: 15 - 32 - Gebouwen moeten sterven: et alors?(2016)
Authors: Johan Lagae
Pages: 2 - 5 - Intersecting interests : developments in networks and flows of information and expertise in architectural history(2016)
Authors: Alex Bremner, Johan Lagae, Mercedes Volait, Stuart King, Anoma Pieris
Pages: 227 - 245 - A city constructed by 'des gens d’ailleurs': urban development and migration policies in colonial Lubumbashi, 1910-1930(2015)
Authors: Sofie Boonen, Johan Lagae, Geert Castryck
Pages: 51 - 69 - 'Congo as it is?' Curatorial reflections on using spatial urban history in the memory of Congo: the colonial era exhibition(2015)Series: International Handbooks of Museum Studies
Authors: Johan Lagae, Annie Coombes, Ruth B Phillips
Pages: 157 - 180 - 'Congobéton Léopoldville : congés payés du 1/1/57 au 31/12/57' : postwar architecture, construction work and local labor in a Belgian colony(2015)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Ludwine Van Craenenbroeck, Mercedes Volait
- Scenes from a changing colonial 'Far West': picturing the early urban landscape and colonial society of cosmopolitan Lubumbashi, 1910-1931(2015)
Authors: Sofie Boonen, Johan Lagae, Kirsten Rüther, Daniela Waldburger
Pages: 11 - 54 - Claude Strebelle & Yenga(2014)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Benno Albrecht
Pages: 137 - 140 - Global experts 'off radar'(2014)
Authors: Johan Lagae, Kim De Raedt
Pages: 1 - 15