The Status of Stone. Urban Identity and the Typological Discourse of Private Houses in the Antwerp City during the Long Sixteenth Century. KU Leuven
Our research considers Antwerp within its sixteenth-century fortified enceinte, and concentrates upon the fifteenth and sixteenth century (including however precedents known from archaeological data from the 9th-10th centuries and later examples from the 17th-18th centuries. The main research object is the private house used for living and working, from the modest one-room dwellings to the most luxurious complexes. Within the highest categories ...