Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020) KU Leuven
In recent decades, architectural historians have increasingly scrutinised the embassy building program of state actors. Framing an embassy to be the physical manifestation of the state, scholars have examined if and to what extent state actors have approached the commissioning of a purpose-built embassy as an opportunity to radiate nationhood abroad and express foreign policy stands and, more importantly, what kind of architecture they saw ...