hortence is the research centre for Architectural History, Theory and Criticism of the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta of the Université libre de Bruxelles
In this research a connection is made between the past and the present of Belgian hospital buildings designed and developed with a human-centred vision in the period of the 1960s-1980s, resulting in a twofold aim. The aim of the project is to read – document…
Vendredi 30.10.2026 – 17h30 Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta, Auditoire Victor Bourgeois, place Eugène Flagey 19. Jury : Wouter Van Acker (ULB, Promoteur), Jean-Didier Bergilez (ULB, Président), Sara Tassi (ULB, Secrétaire), Pierre Chabard (ENSA Paris La Villette), Stéphanie Dadour (ENSA Paris Malaquais), Silvia Groaz (ULiège,…
Séminaire Hortence #1 – 28 September 14h-15h30, Co 2.4 campus Flagey Sarai Salvo will present her ongoing PhD research, “Women Architects and Heritage in Aragon, 1970–2010: Historical Review and Feminist Critique,” introduced by her supervisor Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno, Professor of History of Architecture University of Zaragoza Image: Flor…
Thursday 29 October (4:00–5:00 pm): Lecture, Seminar Room Fl3.1, 3d floor, campus Flagey (public) Friday, 30 October (11:00 am–12:30 pm): Workshop, Seminar Room Fl3.1, 3d floor, campus Flagey (reserved for registered PhD students in the workshop) Drawing on the work of Carlo Ginzburg, who passed…
deadline 15.09.2026 The international symposium Mapping Architectural Integration (1960–2000) aims to critically examine architectural approaches, projects, and debates in which the sensitive and contextual integration of contemporary architecture into historic cities emerged as a contested—and often contentious—issue. Within historic cityscapes, architects have often claimed expertise and agency…
20th of May 2026 – rue de l’Ermitage 55 et Rue Wafelaerts 47-51 – 9h30 doors; 10h Welcome https://www.architectureinpractice.eu/conferences Practices in Research – Conference and Lecture – 20th of May 2026 PRACTICES IN RESEARCH #07 practice-based research conferenceKanal Architecture (rue de l’Ermitage, 55 – Brussels)09:30…
This volume, edited by Lyna Bourouiba and Wouter Van Acker, examines how the idea of degree zero, by entangling the notions of form, value, and authorship, has catalyzed—and continues to deepen— critical reflections on architectural practices and their formalizations. https://www.spectorbooks.com/book/degree-zero-in-architecture Originally derived from literary studies,…
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31.03.2026, 17h00–18h30, Book presentation [EN]- Room Fl.3.1 Elke Couchez, Isabelle Doucet, Setareh Noorani The Laboratories LoUIsE, HABITER and Hortence invite you for the book presentation of This is not a Summer School. The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), edited by Elke Couchez…
Accattone #9 launch at SB34 concorde (Rue de la Concorde 16, 1050 Brussels) on Sat 31 January, from 5 to 8pm, with a short talk by the Accattone team and guest contributors around 5:30.
5 February 2026, 4.30 pm, auditoire Rue du Lombard 34/42 The Archive of The Archive of Disappearance: A Practice based PhD In and Through Composing, Performing and Unfolding. Thesis Supervisor: Wouter VAN ACKER (ULB); Thesis Jury: Wouter DAVIDTS (Ghent University); Dora GARCIA LOPEZ (Oslo National…
Dans le cadre de la 3ème édition du séminaire de recherche “Architecture for the Third-World: a critique” organisé par les centres de recherche Hortence/Habiter à l’ULB, Frederike Lausch (MCF ENSA Grenoble, unité de recherche AE&CC) viendra présenter le 16 mars 2026 à 16h30 à la…
Vendredi 28.11.2025 | 16h30 ULB Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta Auditoire Victor Bourgeois Jury de thèse Jean-Didier Bergilez, président (ULB) Pierre Chabard (ÉNSA Paris La Villette) Isabelle Doucet (University of Sheffield) Judith Le Maire (ULB) Iwan Strauven, promoteur (ULB) Léa-Catherine Szacka (Manchester School of Architecture)…
La projection du documentaire Out of the Picture sera suivie d’une rencontre afin de clôturer la Feminist Architecture Assembly, une journée thématique autour de l’architecture et du féminisme, organisée par L’architecture qui dégenre et PAF (platform voor architectuur & feminisme), à Bruxelles le 28 novembre 2025 prochain. En présence de…
10.12.2025, 15h00 Whiteroom How do you make a world history of architecture? Do you write it, draw it, or build it? In this talk, Matthew will introduce the work of key Japanese architect and historian Itō Chūta (1867-1954) and his mission to create the first world…
“Everyone even vaguely knowledgeable about the historiography of colonial architecture will be familiar with some of the scholarship on French Morocco. This issue presents an in-depth historiographic overview, with contributions that delve deep into the complex institutional settings which underpinned the production of the built…
18.11.2025 at 15h30, White Room 3d Floor, Place Flagey 19 Richard W. Hayes is an architectural historian educated at Columbia and Yale universities whose scholarship focuses on architectural education. In 2007, Hayes published The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years, a comprehensive history of…
Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture tells the untold story of architectural history from 1960 to 2020, as the authoritative reference to women architects and their work, for students, scholars, and professional architects. Women now comprise half of all architecture students in many countries but…
Valentine Masset et Warre Onnockx ont rejoint le projet WEAVE, financé par le FNRS et le FWO, qui explore l’intégration de l’architecture contemporaine dans les centres historiques belges entre 1970 et 1989. Leurs thèses seront réalisées sous forme de co-tutelle entre l’ULB et l’UGent (sous…
21 May 2025 – CIVA – https://architectureinpractice.eu/conferences May 2025 In Practice Conference and lecture – 21st of May 2025 PRACTICES IN RESEARCH #06 practice-based research conferenceC I.II.III.IV. A (rue de l’Ermitage, 55 – Brussels)10:00 sessions 1, 2 & 3 11:40 sessions 4, 5 & 6 15:00 …
ISELP | 21 mai 2025 18:30-20:00 En présence de l’œuvre de Spilliaert (1881 – 1946), empruntée à un collectionneur bruxellois, Apolline Malevez, historienne de l’art, et Apolline Vranken, architecte et chercheuse doctorante en architecture au sein du laboratoire Hortence, exploreront à travers ce portrait les liens entre l’artiste et son…
“SEI’ICHI SHIRAI Heidelberg – FÉLIX GUATTARI Tokyo” is a joint research seminar on the journeys of Japanese architect Sei’ichi Shirai and French philosopher Félix Guattari in Europe and Japan respectively. Architectural critic Thomas Daniell and philosopher Nicolas Prignot will talk about the historical investigations they are conducting into…
Osamu Ishiyama’s Pioneer House (1973-86) Intermediate evaluation Alice Paris (Hortence & Sasha) Steering committeePauline Lefebvre (Supervisor)Geoffrey Grulois (President)Thomas Daniell (Member)Norihito Nakatani (Special guest) Practical information: Wednesday 05.03.2025 | 9h30–11h30ULB Faculté d’ArchitectureLa Cambre HortaPlace Eugène Flagey 19, 1050 BruxellesRoom Co.2.4 (2nd floor) Link Epreuve Intermédiaire Alice…
27/02 à 10h Be1.7 Based on Thomas Daniell’s recent book about contemporary Japanese architecture, An Anatomy of Influence (AA Publications, 2018), this seminar will address the use of oral history in architectural research. Comprehensive biographical information is lacking in architectural history generally, and in Japanese…
Diane Aymard, historienne de l’architecture, viendra présenter le 11 février à 17h à la White Room (bibliothèque de la faculté d’architecture, Flagey), sa thèse qu’elle vient tout juste de soutenir en 2024. Deux “évènements” marquèrent la France durant les années 1960 : les indépendances et la révolte ouvrière…
Civa, 21 May 2025
EN | Junkopia Bricology is a symposium to take place at Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta in Brussels on 7 March 2025. In an interview, the Japanese architect Osamu Ishiyama once described his job as that of an editor (Ishiyama, quoted in Kohte et al., 2017).…
Le numéro 9 de CLARA, dirigé par Victoire Chancel, Carla Frick-Cloupet et Wouter Van Acker, relève la pertinence qu’il y a à ramener à l’architecture le concept d’ « intermédialité », qui désigne le fait que des formes soient prises entre plusieurs médias. La discipline architecturale, construite autour du projet,…
SANTIAGO, CHILE | 10 – 14 December 2024 Dans le cadre de la session Textiles in the modern interior: Discovering the hidden local and global stories between the weaves, la chercheuse doctorante Apolline Vranken présentera la communication suivante : Tapta–Simone Guillissen-Hoa: collaborations and crossing borders…
27.11.2024, Auditoire Bourgeois, 18h30