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
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
26 novembre 2024 à 16h, Fl 6.3 Faculté d’architecture, Place Flagey 19, 1050 Ixelles Juliette Simeone et Dora Rousseau, toutes les deux selectionnées pour le prix du mémoire 2024, présenteront leur mémoire dans le séminaire #1 d’hortence mardi 26/11 à 16h
Michel D’hoe vise à construire de la nouvelle connaissance sur l’oeuvre architecturale de Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967), et de comprendre cette oeuvre dans son contexte culturel. Par l’ étude de la conception des projets architecturaux et urbanistiques auxquels Pierre Jeanneret participe, lié au réseau d’influences qui…
Untimely Teachers: Recovering Postmodernism’s Anachronic Pedagogies Edited by Wouter Van Acker & Steven Lauritano 13264826.2024.2371672 The untimely “postmoderns” figuring in this issue restore the convolutions that unmake the familiar story of the dialectical opposition to modernism. The papers examine unforeseen ways of reading antiquated designs…
Véronique Boone, Maurizio Cohen, Benoît Moritz Architects’ Journeys is a collection of monographs on architects who left their mark on the built landscape of Brussels after the First World War. The collection focuses on the output of architects whose work is less well known, but their…