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Bouwkunst, architectuur (18)
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Global Gothic
Neogothic Church Architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries
2022 || Hardcover || Barbara Borngässer e.a. || Leuven University Press
Although largely overlooked in studies of architectural history, church architecture in a Gothic idiom outlived its 19th century momentum to persist worldwide throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium.
Global Gothic presents a first systematic worldwide understanding of "Gothic" in contemporary architecture, both as a distinct variation and as a competitor to recognized modern styles. The book’s chapters critically discuss Gothic’s various manifestations over the past centur...
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Living Politics in the City
Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space
2022 || Paperback || Marion Hohlfeldt e.a. || Leuven University Press
In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of the explosion of virtual communities through social media and the limitations imposed by pandemics, architecture today still holds an active role in (literally) building our societies. Bearing in mind its acute politicisation in past years, Living Politics in the City looks at public space from the perspective of architecture and its effective contri...
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Brokers of Modernity
east Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950
2019 || Paperback || Martin Kohlrausch || Leuven University Press
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extre...
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Urban Andes
Design-led explorations to tackle climate change
2022 || Paperback || Viviana D’Auria e.a. || Leuven University Press
Climate change in the Andes is affecting the relation between urban development and the landscape. Design-led explorations are reframing landscape logics and urbanisation patterns within the Cachi River Basin of Ayacucho, Peru. A co-production of students, researchers and designers, the book suggests alternative futures, crossing scales of landscape systems to new settlement typologies.
Urban Andes marks the start of the new series LAP on innovative design research in architecture, urbanism, ...
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Territories of Faith
Religion, Urban Planning and Demographic Change in Post-War Europe
2022 || Paperback || Sven Sterken e.a. || Leuven University Press
In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presen...
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The Sound of Architecture
Acoustic Atmospheres in Place
2022 || Paperback || Angeliki Sioli e.a. || Leuven University Press
Acoustic atmospheres can be fleeting, elusive, or short-lived. Sometimes they are constant, but more often they change from one moment to the next, forming distinct impressions each time we visit certain places. Stable or dynamic, acoustic atmospheres have a powerful effect on our spatial experience, sometimes even more so than architecture itself. This book explores the acoustic atmospheres of diverse architectural environments, in terms of scale, function, location, or historic period—pro...
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Forest Urbanisms
New Non-Human and Human Ecologies for the 21st Century
2024 || Paperback || Wim Wambecq e.a. || Leuven University Press
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Contested Legacies
Critical Perspectives on Post-war Modern Housing
2023 || Paperback || Andrea Migotto e.a. || Leuven University Press
In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architecture as a discipline to engage with the transformation in housing evident in the postwar period. Rather than conceiving this task as a technical matter, this book proposes to reassess the conditions and legacy of this large and ubiquitous housing stock. By foregrounding the mismatch between constructed cultural, social and ideological narratives and ...