Projects
Contemporary image constructions: a rhetorical analysis of architectural images and their institutional performances, through the practices of Caruso St John, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen and architecten de vylder vinck taillieu. Ghent University
The Specter of Style: Shifting Understandings in Twentieth-Century Architectural Discourse in China KU Leuven
Unlike in Europe, the concept of style only entered Chinese people’s vision as a new term when the modern discipline of architecture was established in the early twentieth century. Thereafter, for much of the rest of the century, Chinese architects faced the conundrum: "In what style should we build?" This dissertation examines the discussions of style within architectural discourse, and considers (a) the shifting understandings of style in ...
Reperception of Chinoiserie Architectural Stereotypes through Illustrated English and French Printed Media (ca 1840-mid 20th Century) KU Leuven
Plummeting printing costs promoted the public’s access to knowledge; delicate print illustrations catered to the growing middle-class tastes. All above benefited from the printing revolution from the 19th century. In the meantime, with the Franco-British imperialism involved in China, Chinoiserie appeared once again frequently in various European printing media. Chinoiserie, a dynamic term whose connotations had undergone several variations ...
Speech intelligibility in different architectural environments KU Leuven
Prediction or measurement of speech intelligibility in architectural context is typically performed by single number quantities such as STI, C50, D50, U50, etc. These parameters can be easily calculated from so called room impulse response (RIR) which can be either measured in a real room or simulated in a 3D virtual room model. RIR (and thus also speech intelligibility) depends on a volume and shape of the room, as well as on material ...
The structure of architectural theory in Flanders (1965-1995). KU Leuven
Architectural theory - the collection of theoretical approaches by which aesthetic, technological and societal challenges of architecture are defined and challenged – has only recently come to define itself as a field that is to play a major role in the education of future architects. The project aims to study this process of formation as it happened in Belgium during the period 1965-1995 (Belgium being a good example of a country that is – ...
AIDA: Architectural design In Dialogue with dis-Ability. KU Leuven
China-Western Architectural Transfer: Construction History in Guangzhou (1858-1949) KU Leuven
Guangzhou, the southern Treaty Port of China, has witnessed the applications of Western-style structures to universities, hospitals, churches, office buildings, and private houses influenced by the architectural transfer. Although general works on the appearance of the foreign-style buildings in China are abundant, the way these buildings were constructed and the relationship between Chinese and Western building techniques remain largely ...
Cultural-material history of architectural practice Ghent University
This chair aims at creating a pole of competences on the material and cultural history of architecture, within the Architecture Theory and History research group. In the research areas that will be explored, history and material culture are central, but two other themes emerge as well: the cultural, social and environmental impacts of industrial production and use; and the possibility of recovering materials from the existing building stock, ...
Housing Economies of Scale: An Architectural Assessment of Three Historic Case Studies in London. KU Leuven
It is largely assumed that large-scale housing has been an outright failure. The typical images that we have of mass housing have been derived from canonical but polarising projects, the wet dreams of megalomaniacal architectural figures and demonising rhetoric. Since large-scale, coordinated housing solutions are politically incorrect, the types of actions celebrated today tend towards the small: self-help models which risk only serving to ...