Publications

History of architecture as composition – History of architecture as dispositionIs there a pertinent criticism?Historiography changes depending of the (unknown) field of thoughts where the historian or the art critic stays…In this paper I just would like to present a difference between - a Historiography and Criticism in a history of architecture as com-position of figures resulting in architectural objectsand - a Historiography and ...

Do architecture and interior architecture contribute to the happiness of people? Do these design disciplines have a role to play in enhancing possibilities for people to work on their happiness? To answer these questions, the first section of this paper discusses different factors that contribute to happiness: genetics, life circumstantial factors and intentional activities. Next, these factors are refined specifically from the viewpoint of ...

In the early 1980s there were precious few opportunities outside private home building for young architects in Flanders. Government authorities and corporate entities selected a designer for reasons which often had little to do with the quality of the architecture; competitions for public sector contracts were a rarity. Buildings were erected without much ambition or debate; architectural critique was virtually extinct. Remarkably enough, it was ...

The use of iron in architecture - thus in the built environment - has been in both the 19th and the 20th century the subject of discussions by architects, engineers, art historians, philosophers and writers. Through analysis of a series of texts written by architects and engineers - the Belgian engineer Arthur Vierendeel in particular - this paper tries to point out they were concerned with the way future architecture should look like and which ...

Binocular disparity is a powerful depth cue for object perception. The computations for object vision culminate in inferior temporal cortex (IT), but the functional organization for disparity in IT is unknown. Here we addressed this question by measuring fMRI responses in alert monkeys to stimuli that appeared in front of (near), behind (far), or at the fixation plane. We discovered three regions that showed preferential responses for near and ...