‘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)
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Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s – 1990s Edited by Sebastiaan Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen Leuven University Press, 2020 https://lup.be/products/119671?lang=nl Critical historiography of architectural theory 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
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The WORKING PAPER SERIES gathers results from the EAHN 2019 Thematic Conference: DISPLACEMENT & DOMESTICITY SINCE 1945: REFUGEES, MIGRANTS AND EXPATS MAKING HOMES. The EAHN conference was held in Brussels, Belgium on 28-29th March, 2019, in collaboration with KU Leuven Department of Architecture, the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and FWO. The papers presented draw
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This summer Hilde Heynen’s long awaited book on Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was published, both in English (with Bloomsbury – https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/sibyl-moholy-nagy-9781350094116/ ) and in German (with Sandstein – https://verlag.sandstein.de/detailview?no=98-463 ). The English version is expensive, but the German one very affordable. A major voice in the architectural culture of the fifties and sixties, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was uniquely
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The following download offers free access to the teaching tool which was developed collaboratively in a one-day workshop for doctoral students as part of the European Architectural History Network themed conference, Displacement and Domesticity: Refugees, Migrants, and Expats Making Homes (27-29 March 2019, Brussels). The teaching tool is intended as a starting point for scholars
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