"Text -- Buildings"
‘Texts ≈ Buildings: Dissecting Transpositions in Architectural Knowledge (1880-1980)’is a Scientific Research Network (SRN), launched in 2017 and hosted by the research groups Architectural Cultures of the Recent Past (ARP) and Architecture, Interiority, Inhabitation (A2I) of the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, acting together as core research unit under the coordination of Rajesh Heynickx (Head), Fredie Floré and Ricardo Agarez.
The core team at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven develops the SRN together with ten national and international partners: the MDRN group of the Department of Literary Studies, KU Leuven; the ‘Power in History’, Centre for Political History of the University of Antwerp; the Arck group of the Faculty of Architecture and the Arts, Hasselt University; the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, MARC, of the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester; the ‘Building, Architecture & Town Planning – Architecture et Ingénierie Architecturale’, BATir – AIA group of Université Libre de Bruxelles; the Strong Research Environment ‘Architecture in Effect: Rethinking the Social’ of the School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm; the ‘Architecture Research Collaborative’ of School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University; the ‘Architectural Temporalities’ group, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (Center for Literary and Cultural Research), Berlin; the Bilderfahrzeuge International Research Group at The Warburg institute, London; and the Chair of Methods and Analysis of the Department of Architecture, TU Delft.