Projects
Allies in architecture? WWI and the Americanisation of Belgian Architecture (1914-1928). Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Architecture as reality. Theory, history and criticism of architecture via the work of Geert Bekaert Ghent University
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. ...
Moving with Architecture. A Horizontal Interdisciplinary Approach to an Ecology of Architecture and Choreography. Ghent University
"Moving with Architecture" examines an ecology of architecture and choreography by approaching their relationality in a horizontal way. The project takes the metaphor of weaving to explore how this ecology contributes to rethinking the relationship of humans to the world. It thereby considers the oeuvre of Brussels-based choreographer Radouan Mriziga (Morocco, 1985), who centers architecture as a main methodology in his choreographic work, as ...
Variability and plural identities in the early Imperial architecture of the Roman East. Development of a methodology for the contextual analysis of public architecture. KU Leuven
Bureaucracy and Discourse in Everyday Architecture, 1930-1970: An Introduction Ghent University
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 ...
Augmenting the sociability of media architecture. KU Leuven
Redefining space in American architecture and urbanism, 1965-1980 KU Leuven
In the 1950s, a modernist notion of space — conceived as the very ‘essence’ of architecture — represented the central element of American architecture theory. Postmodern architects of the 1980s rejected this view, arguing for a relativistic approach to spatiality. However, an overemphasis on this dichotomy between modernism and postmodernism has led to an academic blindspot for alternative interpretations of space that emerged between 1965 ...
Belgium builds (1918-1969). Strategies, networks and discourses in/on the productionof Belgian State architecture Ghent University
From 1830 on, the Belgian State has been an important commissioner for a variety of
architectural complexes to accommodate and represent its central authorities and services.
Although these complexes occupy an important position in the urban landscape of Belgian cities,
they are still largely omitted from the historiography of both Belgian architecture and politics.
This project investigates the networks of production and ...
Preserving historical urban warehouses by understanding their architecture and technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Today, these wonderful buildings are obsolete for their original purposes. As they occupy valuable plots beloved by speculating building ...