Accattone #9 launch
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.
Category: Research
Practice-based PhD Defense of Lieven De Boeck
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…
ABE Journal #25 “Moroccanization: Architecture and (in)dependence”
“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…
Séminaire Habiter/Hortence #2 “Une mouvance tiers-mondophile”
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…
Junkopia Bricology. It’s an Editor’s World. | Symposium
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).…
Épreuve intermédiaire
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…
Stanislas Jasinski. Architects’Journeys
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…
Chapter publication: The WFP 1968-72 Rural Housing Program in Morocco
par Clark, Ben ; Fisher, AxelEditeur scientifique Ferns, Nicholas ; Villani, AngelaRéférence Yearbook for the History of Global Development, De Gruyter – Oldenburg, Berlin – Boston, Vol. 3, International Organizations and Global Development, pages 163-204Publié, 2024-06 Partie d’ouvrage collectif “This chapter deals with the 1968–72…
Uri Wegman: Drawing Air – Vessels, Arrows and Clouds
16.04.2024 at 16h, Room Fl 6.3 https://cutt.ly/OgQhwmh The seminar will outline Uri Wegman’s current research on air representation in architectural drawings from the industrial revolution to the present, discussing on the ontological and technical challenges that the visualization of air introduces to the established modes…
« Chères Amies »
Les 7 et 8 février 2024, Lyna Bourouiba, Anne-Laure Iger et Alice Paris vous invitent à « Chères Amies », un échange autour des travaux de Marielle Macé au sein du laboratoire hortence. Cette rencontre aura lieu à la Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta. Place Eugène…
Call for Papers: Demolitions and Deconstructions. Practices in Research #05.
Deadline: 26th of February 2024 www.architectureinpractice.eu/pirjournal Moving towards a more ecological and sustainable building culture many architects commit themselves to caring and maintaining our existing building stock. To reduce the consumption of resources, the production of waste and emissions, the aim is to first look at…
STRATA 04 with Alice Paris @ FIX-O-TEK Berlin
The fourth installment of STRATA, the open-end formation and series of events on urban talks, explorations and architecting will happen at FIX-O-TEK on November 17th, 7PM. This time, researcher and travelling scholar Alice Paris based at the Free University of Brussels will speak about methodologies…
Call for Papers / Appel à contributions : L’architecture et l’urbanisme au Maroc après l’indépendance (1956-1986). Trajectoires d’acteur et circulations des savoirs.
Lancement de l’appel à communication pour la première journée d’étude du réseau RHAM (Réseau de recherche sur l’Histoire de l’Architecture au Maroc aux XX-XXIe siècles) qui se tiendra au Centre Jacques Berque à Rabat (Maroc) le 20 février 2024. Les propositions de communication en français…
“GEM pépites d’architecture”, un podcast féministe. Première saison
“GEM pépites d’architecture” est un podcast qui explore des gestes, des engagements et des médiations, une collection de pépites d’architecture. Pendant quatre épisodes, Alessandra Bruno, Anne-Laure Iger et Sophie Jacquemin, doctorantes en architecture à l’Université libre de Bruxelles, vont à la rencontre de femmes architectes…
Séminaire #5 : Fl 5.2 On authorship
Mercredi 31 mai à 11h dans le local Fl 6.3 et sur TEAMS cutt.ly/OgQhwmh
Pauline Lefebvre + Alice Paris in OASE 112 Ecology & Aesthetics
Alice Paris, “Technology, Extinction and the Decorator Crab”, p.45–57. Pauline Lefebvre, “Hairy Materials: On Holding Together Ecological and Aesthetic Concerns”, p.113–126. https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/112
Call for abstracts: History of modern architecture in the light of gender studies
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN THE LIGHT OF GENDER STUDIES | RESEARCH STUDENT SYMPOSIUMMarch 30, 2023 | Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Download the call in English January 9, 2023 : Deadline for submission of abstractJanuary 23, 2023…
Epreuve Intermédiaire Lieven De Boeck
Friday 2 September 2022, 14h-17h, White Room Épreuve intermédiaire de Lieven De Boeck Sous la direction de Wouter Van Acker Comité d’accompagnement Wouter Van Acker Marcelle Rabinowicz Gilles Collard Wouter Davidts Jeremiah Day Nathalie Zonnenberg
Epreuve intermédiaire Apolline Vranken
Epreuve intermédiaire | Apolline Vranken (Laboratoire Hortence) | Simone Guillissen-Hoa (1916-1996), parcours, oeuvre et héritage d’une architecte pionnière : un nouveau récit inclusif de l’architecture moderne en BelgiqueInformations pratiques : Mardi 13 septembre 20029h-11hCO2.4 (2è étage)Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta ULBPlace Flagey 19 – 1050 Bruxelles…
Launch of new website for the journal Clara
The editorial committee of Clara (Denis Derycke, Axel Fisher, Geoffrey Grulois, Pauline Lefebvre, Wouter Van Acker) are proud to present the new website for the journal Clara: https://clararevue.ulb.be/ CLARA Architecture/Recherche (ISSN: 2295-3671 – e-ISSN:2593-5747) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal, financially supported by the FRS-FNRS (Belgian) Fund…
Call for Papers Journal Clara. Intermediality in Architecture: Representation and the Aesthetics of Reflexivity
ENGLISH VERSION (see French Version below) INTERMEDIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE: Representation and the Aesthetics of Reflexivity Guest Editors: Victoire Chancel, Carla Frick-Cloupet, Wouter Van Acker Architectural design, as a projective and representational practice, unfolds through a series of media that continually refer to one another. Today,…
What’s Already There. Sustainable Architecture from Brussels
Construction is now identified as the most resource-consuming human activity. It is widely acknowledged that the sector needs to undergo a major shift, but the possible ways remain elusive. What’s Already There presents six projects* designed by architecture firms based in Brussels that demonstrate a…
Call for Papers: Symposium The zero degree of architectural writing
The zero degree of architectural writing. Theorizing, drawing, and debating the ‘third term’2–3 NOVEMBER 2022FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE LA CAMBRE HORTA – UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES DEADLINE Call For Papers: 31 MARCH 2022 From the ’60s to the ’90s, architectural practitioners and critics adopted the Barthesian…
PhD Ben Clark: From archives to field : The CERF (1967-1973) and the rural modernization of housing in the Drâa
Des archives au terrain : Le CERF (1967-1973) et la modernisation de l’habitat rural dans la vallée du Drâa Ce projet de recherche porte sur la “modernisation” de l’habitat rural dans la vallée du Drâa (Maroc) à partir des travaux menés par le CERF (1967-1973).…
Granting by the FNRS of the co-directed research project (UCL&ULB 2022-2026): A relentless researcher driven by a fierce independence: Pierre Jeanneret, the architect and the builder.
Cousin and partner of Le Corbusier between the wars, then independent architect in the 1940s, and finally, from 1951, key figure in the planning and construction of the new city of Chandigarh in India, the architect Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) was a multi-faceted projector. His built…
Podcast « GEM » en ligne
Un podcast qui explore des gestes, des engagements et des médiations, une collection de pépites d’architecture, entre Belgique et Espagne. « Le plus souvent, quand on pense à l’architecture, on s’imagine un homme affairé sur des plans ou en visite de chantier. Dans les écoles,…
The Corb Legacy. An Interview with Kenneth Frampton
Veronique Boone and Gregorio Carboni Maestri, “The Corb Legacy. An Interview with Kenneth Frampton”, LC Revue n°4, September 2021, pp.132-148.