Lezing: Hannah Leroux – Lived Modernism

120419 lezing hannah leroux lived modernism Lezing: Hannah Leroux   Lived ModernismLezing Hannah Leroux, “Lived Modernism”. Notes on the social appropriation of modernist buildings in post-apartheid Johannesburg.. Maandag 23 april 2012, 13h00 – 14h15, Auditorium C (inleiding: Michiel Dehaene).

Hannah le Roux works in Johannesburg at the University of the Witwatersrand, and practices, curates and writes about architecture. Her work revisits the modernist project in architecture in Africa, and its transformation through the agency of African users and makers. Her writing has appeared in blank_architecture, apartheid and after (NAi 1999), Narrating Architecture (2006), Afropolis (2011), and in journals including Domus, The Journal of Architecture and the Architectural Review, and she has curated exhibitions in Johannesburg, London and Venice as well as for the 2012 Rotterdam Biennale. Lees verder »

Lezing Mercedes Volait: Belle Epoque heritage in Cairo

120313 lezing mercedes volait Lezing Mercedes Volait: Belle Epoque heritage in CairoLezing Mercedes Volait: Belle Epoque heritage in Cairo. The case of Heliopolis . Donderdag 15 maart 2012, 18u00 – 19u30, Auditorium E (inleiding: Johan Lagae).

Mercedes Volait is a research fellow of CNRS and runs the research laboratory InVisu at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris. Her work focusses in particular on the architectural history of modern Egypt (19th and 20th centuries), having written among others on the emergence of the profession of the architect in Egypt, as well as on the issues of heritage related to this particular built production in Egypt, and more largely, the Mediterranean area. She has run several large research projects on this topic and is currently chairing a European funded COST-Action entitled ‘European Architecture beyond Europe’. Lees verder »

Lezing Patricia Hayes

120308 lezing patricia hayes Lezing Patricia HayesLezing Patricia Hayes: Photography, city and landscape in africa. Vrijdag 9 maart 2012, 11u30 – 13u00, Auditorium C (inleiding: Johan Lagae).

Patricia Hayes is professor of History at the University of Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa. At UWC she runs the Visual History Project, part of which involves researching southern African documentary photography. She co-authored the seminal book The Colonising Camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history in 1998. Together with photographer John Liebenberg she recently compiled a book on Liebenberg’s photographs of the border war in Namibia, entitled Bush of Ghosts. Life and War in Namibia 1986-1990. Lees verder »

Lezing Manten Devriendt

120228 lezing manten devriendt Lezing Manten DevriendtLezing Manten Devriendt: De micro Rayon, een architectuur voor de mensen. Dinsdag 6 maart 2012, 18u00 – 19u00, Auditorium E (inleiding: Pieter Uyttenhove).

In zijn lezing gaat Manten Devriendt in op het architectuurlandschap in Oost-Europa. 50 jaar lang werd het Oostelijke deel van Europa gecontroleerd door het harde regime van de Sovjet Unie. De oude traditionele waarden moest plaats ruimen voor het nieuwe Sovjet ideaal. Lees verder »

Lezing Pauline Van Roosmalen

111123 Lezing Pauline Van Roosmalen Lezing Pauline Van RoosmalenLezing Pauline Van Roosmalen (architectuurhistorica, Amsterdam/TU Delft), Lapis legit. Het gebouwde erfgoed van Jakarta (Indonesië). Woensdag 30 november 2011, 18h00-19h30, aud. D (inleiding: Johan Lagae)

Dr. Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen studeerde kunst- en architectuurgeschiedenis aan de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In 2008 promoveerde ze aan de Faculteit Bouwkunde van de Technische Universiteit Delft op een onderzoek naar de stedenbouwkundige ontwikkelingen in Nederlands-Indië tussen 1905 en 1951. Van Roosmalen publiceert en spreekt regelmatig over historische en actuele ontwikkelingen met betrekking tot het koloniaal gebouwde erfgoed in Indonesië. Lees verder »