Bio
Alek Vanderheyden is a doctoral researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Antwerp. Affiliated with hortence, the Research Centre for architectural history, theory and criticism at La Cambre Horta, and the Architecture + Interior research group, he is pursuing a joint PhD in architecture. His project, Humanising the Hospital, explores the relationship between architecture, healthcare and the experience of patients and staff in Belgian hospitals from the 1960s to the 1980s. He holds a Master's degree in History from the University of Antwerp, where his research focused on urban ecology in Brussels. Before starting his PhD, he worked as a historical researcher for the exhibition We The Bacteria at the Flanders Architecture Institute.
Favourite (interior) architecture project
Scalesciani House (1977) – Alberto Ponis
Casa Scalesciani (1977), by Alberto Ponis, is set into the granite cliffs of Costa Paradiso, Sardinia. Its walls follow free, irregular lines, and its floors rise and fall with the rock. From the path above, the house almost disappears into the hillside. The Mediterranean is never out of sight, and the line between inside and outside all but dissolves.
Copyright: Alberto Ponis
Contact & Links
19 Place Flagey - 1050 Bruxelles – Belgique
Mutsaardstraat 31 - 2000 Antwerpen – België
alek.vanderheyden@ulb.be