Luce Beeckmans

Hilde Heynen

Alessandra Gola

Ashika Singh

Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.

Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice

Making Home(s) in Displacement

Rajesh Heynickx

Sebastiaan Loosen

It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.

Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s

The Figure of Knowledge

Gülsüm Baydar

In the home the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. Negotiating Domesticity investigates the many and complex themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms. Topics covered include famous as well as less well-known architectural examples and architects, which are explored from sociological, anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches. The authors explore the relationships between modern domestic spaces and sexed subjectivities in a broad range of geographical locations of Western modernity. This richly interdisiplinary work presents architects and postgraduate students with an in-depth exploration of domesticity in the modern era.

Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture

Negotiating Domesticity

Professor of Architectural Theory Hilde Heynen

Gulsum Baydar

A series of essays to challenge and stimulate, examining the links between gender, domesticity and architecture from a number of different perspectives and disciplines.

Stephen Cairns

C. Greig Crysler

"Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo." - Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural History Network "Architectural theory interweaves interdisciplinary understandings with different practices, intentions and ways of knowing. This handbook provides a lucid and comprehensive introduction to this challenging and shifting terrain, and will be of great interest to students, academics and practitioners alike." - Professor Iain Borden, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture "In this collection, architectural theory expands outward to interact with adjacent discourses such as sustainability, conservation, spatial practices, virtual technologies, and more. We have in The Handbook of Architectural Theory an example of the extreme generosity of architectural theory. It is a volume that designers and scholars of many stripes will welcome." - K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory, Harvard University The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory documents and builds upon the most innovative developments in architectural theory over the last two decades. Bringing into dialogue a range of geographically, institutionally and historically competing positions, it examines and explores parallel debates in related fields. The book is divided into eight sections: Power/Difference/Embodiment Aesthetics/Pleasure/Excess Nation/World/Spectacle History/Memory/Tradition Design/Production/Practice Science/Technology/Virtuality Nature/Ecology/Sustainability City/Metropolis/Territory. Creating openings for future lines of inquiry and establishing the basis for new directions for education, research and practice, the book is organized around specific case studies to provide a critical, interpretive and speculative enquiry into the relevant debates in architectural theory.

The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory

Frank Moulaert

Liesbeth Huybrechts

Annette Kuhk

Jan Schreurs

Kritische studie van participatieprocessen in architectuur, stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ordening ‘Participatie’ werd, in de nasleep van 1968, een sleutelwoord in architectuur, stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ordening in Vlaanderen en Brussel. Sindsdien zijn processen van medezeggenschap, inspraak en coproductie min of meer ingeburgerd in ontwerp- en planningspraktijken. Het enthousiasme voor deze processen is aan wisselende invloeden onderhevig en participatie staat dus lang niet altijd centraal in de feitelijke beslissingsstromen. Dit boek documenteert deze golfbewegingen aan de hand van historische overzichten, gevalstudies, interviews en kritische reflecties. Daarbij wordt nagedacht over de rol van actoren, de kracht van het ontwerp en het belang van (de) politiek. De wetenschappelijke inzichten en praktijkgebaseerde beschouwingen rond de drie grote participatiegolven van 1968 tot nu ronden af met een prospectieve kijk op participatieve benaderingen en een kritische reflectie op toekomstige sociaal-politieke uitdagingen. Deze veelheid aan complementaire invalshoeken maakt Participatiegolven tot een onmisbaar referentiewerk voor een breed lezerspubliek, van architecten, planologen en ontwerpers tot sociale geografen en stadssociologen, en van studenten tot academische en praktijkgerichte professionals. Bijdragende auteurs Wouter Bervoets (IDEA Consult / KU Leuven), Bie Bosmans (vroegere coordinator BOM, Antwerpen), Dag Boutsen (KU Leuven), Etienne Christiaens (betrokken geweest bij het Federaal Grootstedenbeleid), Veerle Cox (Intercommunale Leiedal), Seppe De Blust (Endeavour), Bruno De Meulder (KU Leuven), Tim Devos (Endeavour), Els Dietvorst (kunstenaar), Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven), Liesbeth Huybrechts (Universiteit Hasselt), Michael Kaethler (KU Leuven), Annette Kuhk (KU Leuven), André Loeckx (KU Leuven), Frank Moulaert (KU Leuven), Petra Pferdmenges (Alive Architecture), Jan Schreurs (KU Leuven), Ruth Segers (KU Leuven), Erik Vandaele (KU Leuven), Pieter Van den Broeck (KU Leuven), Barbara Van Dyck (University of Sussex), Hanne Vanreusel (KU Leuven), Ward Verbakel (plusofficearchitects)

Dialogen over ruimte, planning en ontwerp in Vlaanderen en Brussel

Participatiegolven

A major voice in the architectural culture of the mid-century, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was uniquely engaged with modernism and modernity. As one of the very few female architectural critics of the time, she was an early voice articulating doubts about the path modernist architecture was taking, demystifying the myths of the masters, Mies, Le Corbusier and Gropius, and questioning their heroic, masculinist approach. Yet her writings and work are understudied, and have largely vanished from the canon of scholarly references on modernism. This book analyzes the significance of the life and work of Moholy-Nagy and explores the paradoxical aspects of the relationship between modernism and feminism. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked figures in modernism, it is both an examination of her work and legacy, and also a study on the roles of gender and of the changing nature of modernism in its trajectory from Europe to America. Drawing on personal papers, diaries, letters and lecture notes, as well as personal interviews with relatives, colleagues and students, this study is a key resource for scholars who would like to include the contributions of women in to their discussions of architecture and modernism.

Architecture, Modernism and Its Discontents

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy

Charles Jencks

Le Corbusier

Tim Benton

Architectural Association (Great Britain)

Peter Carl

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret set about the task of reinventing everything he had touched, from himself to architecture. Famously, he began with his own name. His resonant pseudonym, Le Corbusier, meant 'crow-like', and he spent most of his career observing the wide horizon of worldwide developments.

Le Corbusier & the Architecture of Reinvention

Carl Bourgeois

 Karen Maex

Kris Scheerlinck

Yves Schoonjans

Margarita Greene

Chris Van Keer

Richard Blythe

Johan Verbeke

Frank van der Hoeven

Guy Van Kerckhoven

Good Practices / Best Practices: A Manifesto for Academic Design Education and Research on Creative Practice

Bridges the gap between the history and theory of twentieth-century architecture and cultural theories of modernity. In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge the gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of modernity. On one hand, she discusses architecture from the perspective of critical theory, and on the other, she modifies positions within critical theory by linking them with architecture. She assesses architecture as a cultural field that structures daily life and that embodies major contradictions inherent in modernity, arguing that architecture nonetheless has a certain capacity to adopt a critical stance vis-à-vis modernity. Besides presenting a theoretical discussion of the relation between architecture, modernity, and dwelling, the book provides architectural students with an introduction to the discourse of critical theory. The subchapters on Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, and the Venice School (Tafuri, Dal Co, Cacciari) can be studied independently for this purpose.

A Critique

Architecture and Modernity

Hilde Heynen

About

Books

Join the club