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conference programme EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK EAHN SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING PALAIS DES ACADEMIES BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Thomas Coomans, K.U.Leuven Dirk De Meyer, UGent Els De Vos, Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen Rika Devos, UGent Jean-Louis Genard, ULB, Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Janina Gosseye, K.U.Leuven Jorge Correia, University of Minho Hilde Heynen, K.U.Leuven Krista De Jonge, K.U.Leuven Ruth Hommelen, St. Lucas Adrian Forty, UCLondon Bernard Kormoss, Université de Liège Hilde Heynen, K.U.Leuven Judith le Maire, ULB, Mari Hvattum, AHO Oslo Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta Susan Klaiber, independent scholar Piet Lombaerde, Universiteit Antwerpen Dietrich Neumann, Brown University Anne-Françoise Morel, UGent Edoardo Piccoli, Politecnico di Torino Sven Sterken, St. Lucas Belgin Turan, METU Ankara Francis Strauven, UGent David Vanderburgh, UCLouvain Koenraad Van Cleempoel, UHasselt THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012 FRIDAY, 1 JUNE 2012 SATURDAY, 2 JUNE 2012 EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK EAHN SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING PALAIS DES ACADEMIES BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2012 9 9.00 - 11.45 9.00 - 11.45 Across Geographies: Shifting Boundaries of Siege Views and the Representation of Cities in Early Modern Europe ■ Renaissance Architectural Historiography ■ New Ideas, new models? Communicating Architecture: Working with Documents in Construction ● Architectural Representation and its Objects in the Twentieth Century ● 10 Giorgio Ciucci lecture in BOZAR Clerical ties: Architectural Networks and Networking Architecture and Territoriality in Medieval Europe ▲ ▲ thursday, 31 may 2012 (20.00 - 22.00) in the Colonial Mission field, 1500-1900 Neither "Modernism" nor avant-garde: A Roundtable Discussion Giorgio Ciucci Memory, Identity, and Community in Architecture and Urbanism ♠ ♠ in honour of the ninetieth birthday of Alan Colquhoun *Title of lecture - to be confirmed* 11 "Development" from the Periphery. Architectural Knowledge Exchange The Way Back to an Altered Homeland. Beyond US/ Soviet Bipolarity, 1950s-1980s ♣ Remigration and Reemployment of Architects in Europe, 1935-1970 ♣ conference reception & dinner Partnership and the Creation of Modern Professional Practices ♦ Shaping a Middle Class Life: Architecture, Domestic Space and ♦ in Architecture and Planning Building Programs since the Birth of Consumer Society friday, 1 june 2012 (19.00 - ...) 12 Welcome reception (19.00-20.00) 12.15 - 13.15 *Location to be confirmed* Maarten Delbeke Conference Dinner in Restaurant Bozar (20.00 - ...) lunch events & lunch tours Baron Hortastraat/ Rue Baron Horta 3, 1000 Brussels 13 *title to be confirmed* 13.30 - 14.30 lunch tours friday, 1 june 2012 (13.15 - 15.45) 14 welcome 14.00 - 16.45 Islamic and Renaissance Gardens: A Case for Mutual Influence ■ Visit to the Palais des Académies organized by Francis Strauven (max. number of participants: 30) 14.30 - 15.30 lunch events & lunch tours Fusion Architecture from the Middle Ages to the Present Day: Incorporation, Confrontation or Integration? ● Fifties architecture for the Welfare State 15 Ákos Moravánszky organized by Rika Devos (max. number of participants: 25) The Spoils of Architectural Training: Studying School Manuals, ▲ Teaching on the Peripheries: Charles Polónyi and the Lessons of Marginality Teaching Handbooks and Exercises Sheets in Europe (18th to 19th Century) A visit through the Europe district Postmodernism - Theory and History ♠ organized by Tom Verhofstadt (max. number of participants: 30) 15.45 - 18.30 15.45 - 18.30 Court Residences in Early Modern Europe (1400-1700). 16 The Classical Urban Plan: Monumentality, Continuity and Change Holidays after the Fall: ■ Architecture, Ceremony and International Relations ■ History and Transformation of Socialist Holiday Resorts ♣ saturday, 2 june 2012 (11.45 - 14.00) Open Session Hvattum ● Urban Representations of the Temporal ● Engineers and Counterculture ♦ Albertina - Royal Library of Belgium Travel of Men and Models: Intepreting, Collecting and Adapting organized by Hannes Pieters (max. number of participants: 25) ▲ Worship, Liturgical Space and Church Building ▲ 17 French Art and Architecture in Europe During the 17th and 18th Centuries 17.15 - 17.45 Brussels as Capital of a Nineteenth-Century Nation-State: Regionalism Redivivus. Do We Need a Closer Look? ♠ Politics and Architecture: Definitions, Methods and Possibilities ♠ wrap-up The Creation of an Urban Axis Expressing Belgian Transformations of Sources and Models in Design Identity and Democratic Power Postwar Instrumentalization of the baroque in Europe and North America ♣ ♣ 17.45 - 18.45 18 and Communicative Practice organized by Thomas Coomans (max. number of participants: 25) Housing, the State and Society since World War II ♦ The Welfare State Project. Architectural Positions, Roles and Agencies ♦ Mary Mc Leod Visit to the CIVA and Archives of the AAM *title to be confirmed* organized by Christophe Pourtois (max. number of participants: 25) 19 opening reception lunch events During the lunch breaks, a series of events, such as book launches, poster presentations, etc... will be conducted in the Palais des Académies. A detailed programme of these events will be posted on the website shortly. 20 lecture by Giorgio Ciucci in BOZAR conference dinner ■ track: EARLY MODERN ● track: REPRESENTATION & ▲ track: QUESTIONS OF METHODOLOGY ♠ track: THEORETICAL ISSUES ♣ track: 20th CENTURY ♦ track: WELFARE STATE & ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATION lunch programme LUNCH TOURS EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK EAHN EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK EAHN SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING PALAIS DES ACADEMIES BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2012 PALAIS DES ACADEMIES BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 31 MAY - 3 JUNE 2012 Friday, 1 June 2012 [13.15 - 15.45] The History of the Palais des Académies - short lecture followed by a limited visit Practicalities lecture & guided tour in the Palais des Académies / free tour Program After an introduction on the history of the building, the most important rooms of the building will be visited Description The Palace of the Academies is the seat of five Belgian royal academies: two academies of science and fine arts (the French-speaking ARB and the Dutchspeaking KVAB), two academies of medicine (the French- speaking ARMB and the Dutch-speaking KAGB) and the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature (ARLLFB). Still, the palace was not designed as an Aedes Academiarum but as a princely residence. It was built for Prince William of Orange, the crown prince of the then Kingdom of the United Netherlands, a union of the Netherlands and Belgium which lasted from 1815 to 1830. The young prince had been an adjutant of Wellington, had distinguished himself by his heroic deeds in the English campaigns against the Napoleonic troops in Spain, and had played a crucial role in the Battle of Waterloo where Napoleon was finally defeated. With his cheerful character, he proved in many respects to be the opposite of his father, King William I, a rather dour, frugal and calculating ruler unliked by the Belgians. The Belgians hinted that they would prefer to be ruled by the prince rather than his father and this desire found official expression in the proposal of the Belgian States General in 1815 to build a palace for the prince in Brussels, long before considering building a Royal Palace. William I was firmly opposed to this bill, rightly understanding that the initiative was aimed at installing his son as a kind of viceroy in Brussels. But after five years of resistance, the king eventually gave in. The project was entrusted to Charles Vander Straeten, an architect who had already built the Prince’s country house in Tervuren. The palace was designed in 1821-23, and constructed from 1823-28. Vander Straeten, an outstanding exponent of Belgian neoclassicism, produced one of the purest buildings of the late Empire period. Based on an axial plan, it can be considered a perfect application of J.N.L. Durand’s composition theory, but is by no means marked by Durand’s dry utilitarianism. Vander Straeten accommodated the palace to the extant classical context of the Warande city park and the adjacent Place Royale (both c. 1782), but at the same time he distinguished it in several ways. Unlike the surrounding mansions, uniformly plastered and painted white, the palace was executed entirely in natural stone and its façades articulated with an elegant Ionic order. The prince and his family lived in the palace only one year before the Belgian revolution took place. The Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts and the Royal Academy of Medicine moved into the building in 1876, but in the meantime its interior had been thoroughly transformed. The palace was restored and renovated between 1969 and 1976 by the architect Simon Brigode. Currently it is undergoing a new restoration campaign, with completion planned for early 2012 in time for the EAHN conference in spring 2012. Source: Francis Strauven, ‘Palais des Académies, Brussels: Venue for EAHN 2012’, European Architectural History Network Newsletter, 3/ 10 (September 2010): 14-16. Maximum number of participants (per day): 30 Lunch tour organiser: Visit to the Palais des Académies — organised by: Francis Strauven Lunch tours —— 4 LUNCH TOURS EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK EAHN EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK EAHN SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING PALAIS DES ACADEMIES BRUSSELS, BELGIUM