March 2024

Lecture series on Architectural and Construction History 2024

We are thrilled to announce an engaging online lecture series, on the flows of materials, energy and labour in Architectural and Construction History. The lecture series is part of the course Architectural and Construction History for 3rd bachelor students in Architectural Engineering and Master students in Urban Studies (VUB+ULB). Please find the line-up and links to register below. For more info and short summaries of the lectures, please click here or contact Stephanie.Van.de.Voorde@vub.be.

Line-up:

Jane Mah Hutton: The expanded relationships of the act of building. From material flows to labour movements.

>>Thursday February 29, 4pm (CET)

>> online lecture, via Ms Teams. Register here at least two days beforehand to receive a link.

Sabine Barles: From circularity to linearity. The infrastructures of urban metabolism, 18th-20th centuries.

>> Friday March 1, 5:30 pm (CET)

>> live at Beursschouwburg, Brussels. No registration required. The lecture will also be streamed: you can find the link here. This lecture is part of the StadsSalonsUrbains (organised by BCUS and Brussels Academy, curated by Stephanie Van de Voorde)

Barnabas Calder: Emergency stop. A call for radical inaction.

>> Wednesday March 13, 2 pm (CET)

>> online Q&A session. Please watch the recording of Barnabas' lecture (part of the StadsSalonsUrbains 2023-2024) beforehand via this link. Register here at least two days beforehand to receive a link to the Q&A session with Barnabas.

Kiel Moe: Construction Ecology. Thinking about systems rather than objects.

>> Thursday March 28, 4 pm (CET)

>> online Q&A session. Please watch the recording of Kiel's lecture (part of the Berlage Sessions in 2022) beforehand via this link. Register here at least two days beforehand to receive a link to the Q&A session with Kiel.