Projects
Copying As Common Practice in Early Modern Architecture Ghent University
This project advances the hypothesis that techniques of mechanical drawing, and specifically, drawings produced by manual copying and direct tracing, served as the bedrock of early modern architectural education prior to the advent of formal schools of architecture. The normative histories of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian architecture have relegated drawings of mechanical subject matter (construction machinery, scaffolding systems, ...
Micro Urbanism in Flanders, architecture policy and urban practice for villages KU Leuven
MICRO URBANISM IN FLANDERS, Architecture policy and urban practice for villages
Since the Flemish government announced the 'betonstop' (concrete stop) in 2017, the discussion on sprawl and urbanisation in Flanders took a new turn. 'Betonstop' is used to label the intention to stop developing green fields and open space as of 2040. The concept is rooted in a broader policy spatial framework for the whole of Flanders (Beleidsplan Ruimte ...
Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training-research. KU Leuven
The ADAPT-r ITN aims to significantly increase European research capacity through a unique and ground-breaking research model: at its core is the development of a robust and sustainable ITN in an emergent Supra-Disciplinary field of research across a range of design and arts disciplines – creative practice research. ADAPT-r will train new researchers, increase supervisory capacity, partner with private sector SMEs in research projects ...
Ornament, Argument and Etiquette. Architecture as social practice in France, ca. 1700 Ghent University
In late 17th-century France there was a general consensus that architectural models from Roman Antiquity and Italian Renaissance no longer necessarily provided valid criteria for architectural design. This moment of crisis instigated a debate about new and valid architectural principles. Previous studies have argued that this debate formed part of attempts by the French royal to institutionalize a range of cultural and scientific practices. ...
Research in architecture practices KU Leuven
Pioneering Practices. Re-reading Flanders’ architecture of the 1960s and ‘70s. KU Leuven
In Flanders, several exceptional buildings from the 1960s-1980s that take on a central role in the urban fabric are derelict or in physical decay. There is an acute lack of insights to guide their status as monuments, the processes of reconversion to face the future as well as the high demands for restauration. The research aims to generate more knowledge on these ‘pioneering buildings’, by combining design and practice-based expertise with ...
Crossing Practices, Mounting Knowledge: The Mediation of Urban Conditions in Architecture Exhibitions at the turn of the millennium Ghent University
Social sustainability in Landscape and Garden Architecture: toward a dialogue in education and practice HOGENT
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, ...