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The meaning and impact of the concept of societal awareness on the design process of the interior and the role of the interior architect University of Antwerp

In a complex society that deals with many contemporary society-related challenges (e.g. social cohesion, multiculturalism, poverty, sustainability and migration) societal awareness has become an important competence for the designer in general and for the interior architect in particular. Triggered by these challenges and influenced by evolutions within the behavioural sciences, there is a growing attention for the interior as 'a social/shared ...

The Genealogy of the discipline of Interior Architecture.The Mission, Education and Oeuvre of Gatekeeper Jul De Roover University of Antwerp

Els De Vos

Henry van de Velde

This proposal aims an in-depth study of the work and professional life of architect Jul De Roover: his writings, education and practice. De Roover occupied gatekeeping roles within interior design education, gave shape to the professionalization of interior design in Belgium and designed some noticeable housing projects. It is motivated by the assumption that a better understanding of this pilot project will help to develop a framework for the ...

The design of durable, inclusive public interiors from an urban and interior perspective University of Antwerp

Els De Vos

Henry van de Velde

"Urban public space is one of the hallmarks of the city, of city life, and urban culture. For these reasons hybrid forms of public space, the so called second public space, are interesting insofar they don't pose a subversion of the first public space." (Borret, beleidsnota 2006-2011, p.39)The former Antwerp City Architect, Kristiaan Borret, draws attention to the qualities of 'second' public space, such as arcades, passages, inner courtyards ...

Dressed in Daydreams. Women and the Evocation of Distant Times and Places through the Historicist and Orientalist Interior Gowns of Liberty & Co., Mariano Fortuny and Vitali Babani, ca. 1870s-1920s Ghent University

Maude Bass-Krueger

Department of Art, music and theatre sciences

During the late nineteenth century, kimonos were favoured dressing gowns and many tea-gowns had antique, mediaeval or eighteenth-century inspirations. Paradoxically, these female garments, evoking distant times and places, were bound to the home. Through an object-based study of clothing and an analysis of written clothing, this research examines the link between interior gowns, wearer, domestic interior and the U+2018OtherU+2019.

Architecture as reality. Theory, history and criticism of architecture via the work of Geert Bekaert Ghent University

Emiel De Kooning

Department of Architecture and urban planning

Since the fifties, Geert Bekaert has written consistently and continuously on architecture and the arts. With this research, I want to enlighten the (architectural) theory of Geert Bekaert, by reconstructing it within the international landscape of architecture theory and history. In BekaertU+2019s thinking, architecture is the first and most comprehensive human activity it precedes ideology, politics, aesthetics, economy and philosophy. ...

Less Vision, More Senses. Towards a More Multisensory Design Approach in Architecture. KU Leuven

Ann Heylighen

Architecture and Design

The built environment is often designed with a visual appreciation or function in mind, to such an extent that some attribute a visual bias to architecture and architectural practice. A possible explanation for thisvisual bias can be found in the widespread use of visualisation techniques and the underrepresented human body in architects design process. However, we interact with the built environment using our entire body andall of its senses. ...

Bureaucracy and Discourse in Everyday Architecture, 1930-1970: An Introduction Ghent University

Johan Lagae

Department of Architecture and urban planning

My proposal is threefold: I intend to prepare the long-term research project
U+2018Bureaucracy and Discourse in Everyday Architecture, 1930-1970U+2019, taking
advantage of the expertise of the Architectural History and Theory research group
in Ghent; to collaborate with it to produce specific outputs that explore our shared
interest in the less-celebrated works and agents of architecture; and to valorise my
recently ...

Sabbatical Fredie Floré: Reframing Knoll International: Exploring Intersections of Architecture, Design and Business History KU Leuven

Fredie Floré

History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture

The sabbatical period is primarily focused on research, in particular on preparing two publications and exploring the associated avenues for further research.
a) Knoll International: book project at the intersection of architecture, design and business history
In 2017, together with Cammie McAtee, I published the internationally well-received edited volume The Politics of Furniture (Routledge). The production of this book revealed ...

Shaping Social Commitment. Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and '80s KU Leuven

Hilde Heynen

Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture

The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s?

To this aim, the notion of ‘architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ‘architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ...

Designing Embassies for Middle Powers: The Architecture of Belgian and Dutch Diplomacy in a Globalizing World KU Leuven