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Researcher
Thomas Coomans de Brachène
- Disciplines:Architectural engineering, Architecture, Interior architecture, Architectural design, Art studies and sciences
Affiliations
- History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Architecture and Society (Division)
Member
From1 Jan 2013 → 31 Jul 2020 - Department of Architecture (Department)
Member
From16 Aug 2010 → 30 Sep 2010 - Art History, Leuven (Research group)
Member
From1 Apr 2003 → 25 Nov 2003 - KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society (Research institute)
Member
From1 Apr 2001 → 31 Dec 2007
Projects
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- Hidden Innovation. Building church roofs in Belgium (1830s-1930s): construction technologies, architectural-historical contextualization, and present heritage challenges in international perspective.From1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Heritagization of the Chinese Eastern RailwayFrom27 Sep 2017 → 27 Sep 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Hidden Innovation: Roof Frame Design and Construction in Parish Churches of Brussels and Charleroi, 1830-1940From1 Jun 2017 → 28 Jun 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Fired earth in the built. The Western brick heritage in China: history, technology and conservation.From1 Feb 2017 → 31 Jan 2020Funding: FWO fellowships
- Redeveloping the City. Cartography of the Afterlife of Monasteries in the Belgian Towns of Brussels, Antwerp and Bruges (1773/1796-1860)From1 Oct 2014 → 9 Jul 2020Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Whose Nostalgia? Reconstruction, Re-creation & Rebuilding of Lost Heritage Sites in the People’s Republic of ChinaFrom30 Jun 2014 → 6 Oct 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- The Specter of Style: Shifting Understandings in Twentieth-Century Architectural Discourse in ChinaFrom18 Apr 2013 → 25 Sep 2018Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Redeveloping the city. Urban transformation and heritagization after the secularization of religious houses in Belgian towns at the dawn of the modern age (1773/1796-1860).From1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: FWO research project
- Out of Clay, laid in Bond. Building with the Brick in the County of Flanders, 1200-1400From6 Dec 2010 → 20 Aug 2015Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Transmission and Transformation of European Church Types in China: The Churches of the Scheut Missions beyond the Great Wall, 1865-1955From1 Oct 2008 → 1 Feb 2013Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
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- Bâtisseurs jésuites de l’ombre: missionnaires charpentiers, architectes et ingénieurs, agents de transfers architecturaux en Chine (1843-1949)(2023)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
Pages: 265 - 291 - Church Architecture and Church Buildings: China(2023)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
Number of pages: 80 - Sheshan jiaotang xunzong: jianzhu, chaosheng, lishi tujing 佘山教堂寻踪: 朝圣建筑和历史途径 [The Basilica of Sheshan: pilgrimage architecture and historical landscape](2023)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
Number of pages: 303 - Networks of Parish Churches across a Growing Metropolis. Catholic Territorial Strategy in Late Twentieth-Century Seoul, South Korea(2022)
Authors: Youngji Kang, Thomas Coomans de Brachène
- Western, Modern and Postmodern Gothic Churches in Twentieth-Century China: Styles, Identities and Memories(2022)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
Pages: 178 - 201 - Reconquering a Lost Visibility: Catholic Revival in Early Industrial Belgium(2021)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
Pages: 140 - 153 - Neo-Gothic: Style and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Belgium(2021)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
Pages: 244 - 257 - Nationalism and the Modernization of Thai Architectural Education at Chulalongkorn University in the 1920s and 1930s(2021)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
- ‘Imposing and Provocative’: The Design, Style, Construction and Significance of Saint Anthony’s Cathedral, Xinjiang (Shanxi, China), 1936-40(2021)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
Pages: 85 - 92 - Le Crédit Foncier d'Extrême Orient (CFEO) et l'affaire de la Villa Basset à Shanghai, 1921-1923(2021)
Authors: Thomas Coomans de Brachène
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