Research team
Architecture in Antwerp: from Academy to University.
Abstract
This research project aims at studying the educational program and the training of architects at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Arts (founded in 1663) and its successors (from 1952 onwards the National Higher Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, and since 1996 the Department of Design Sciences of the Antwerp University College Artesis). The other architectural related programs are included in the study: urbanism and spatial planning, interior architecture and conservation of the built and un-built heritage. Also the buildings in which the education took place, are the scope of this research. The result of this interdisciplinary research projects consists of a publication with thematic essays.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: de Smaele Henk
- Co-promoter: De Vos Els
- Co-promoter: Lombaerde Piet
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Project type(s)
- Research Project
The early hydrography of the city of Ghent: an explorative geomorphological and historical study of human intervention in water management in medieval Ghent (1100-1300).
Abstract
Human modifications to the natural hydrological system have generated the conditions in which one of the most spectacular examples of urban growth in medieval Europe could take place. It is, therefore, remarkable that almost no historical studies about this variable exist for the city of Ghent. The integration of the analysis of the (rare) historical evidence with new geomorphological and geological data, that have become available to research recently, will valorise existing expertise present at the Centre for Urban History (UA) and the Centre for the history of architecture and urban planning (HA).Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Soens Tim
- Co-principal investigator: Gelaude Frank
- Co-principal investigator: Lombaerde Piet
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Project type(s)
- Research Project
A survey of the (a-)synchronicity between the fourth Kondratieff long-term economic cycles and investment patterns in urban planning in Antwerp and Amsterdam ;and the impact of these patterns upon the cities' attractiveness.
Abstract
The goals of the research question are as follows: - intelligibly collecting and arranging data on the (a-)synchronicity between the fourth Kondratieff long-term economic cycle and the investment patterns in urban planning in Amsterdam en Antwerp, - to demonstrate through these instrumental cases how en why that these investment patterns can fundamentally influence a city's attractiveness to its inhabitants (in particular, to the creative class as defined by R. Florida).Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Goossens Luc
- Co-principal investigator: Keignaert Koenraad
- Co-principal investigator: Lombaerde Piet
Research team(s)
- Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
- Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
Project type(s)
- Research Project