Rajesh Heynickx
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajesh Heynickx |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Heynickx |
| SIGNATURE | HEYNICKX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0889-7380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Figure of Knowledge
Critical historiography of architectural theory\nIt 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 architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.\nYet the intellectual contours of what constitutes …
The Figure of Knowledge: Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s
"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 architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux…
From Inertia to the Absolute: On Visuality and Religion in Jean Labatut
This article offers an analysis of the ideas of the French architect Jean Labatut, who was the director of graduate studies at Princeton’s Department of Architecture in the post-Second World War years (1949–67). Throughout his career at Princeton (1928–67) he developed a pedagogical system centred on a visual engagement with the built environment. As a progressive Catholic, Labatut integrated spiritual concerns within his educational programme at…
So What's New about Scholasticism: How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century
At the Crossroads between Catholicism and Modernist Art
The French Dominican monk and artist, Marie-Alain Couturier (1897–1954) was initially trained as a painter. He went on to become a friar at Le Saulchoir in Belgium, receiving his ordination in 1930. Largely recognized as the figure at the centre of the debate on the role of apostolic art in the 1940s and 1950s in France, he was a friend of many pioneers of modernist art, such as Braque, Matisse, and Picasso. Through this, he was an interlocutor b…
Conceptual Debts: Modern Architecture and Neo-Thomism in Postwar America
This article analyzes the formative role of medieval theology and aesthetics in the development of postwar American architecture by focusing on the architectural theory and practice of Mies van der Rohe and Jean Labatut, both of whom became actively interested in Neo-Thomism from the late 1940s. More specifically, a closer look at their reliance on the work of Jacques Maritain, the preeminent promotor of Neo-Thomism, sheds light on the transmissi…
A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70: Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70
Bridging the Abyss: Victor Basch's Political and Aesthetic Mindset
This essay cross-examines both the correlation and the disjunction between art philosophy and political reason in the thinking of the French Jewish art philosopher, Kant specialist and socialist politician Victor Basch (1863–1944). Two interwoven lines of questioning will be in play. One considers the extent to which Basch's theory of beauty, which was primarily grounded in a psychological theory of Einfühlung , was a corollary to his political i…
Landscapes of Nostalgia: Life Scientists and Literary Intellectuals Protecting Belgium's 'Wilderness', 1900-1940
The nature protection movement in early twentieth-century Belgium mobilised activists of diverse backgrounds. Among these, two circles stand out. On the one hand, there was a group of life scientists, who gathered in the Belgian League for the Protection of Nature; on the other, a group of literary intellectuals, who organised themselves in the Society for Natural and Urban Beauty. In this article, the discursive strategies employed by both group…
The Muse of Mysticism. Transforming, Recycling Catholicism, 1900-1950
Space and Mystic Contemplation. On the Self-Fashioning of Converted Avant-Gardists
Rajesh Heynickx, Ruimte en mystieke contemplatie. Over de self-fashioning van bekeerde avant-gardisten In dit artikel wordt de populariteit van mystiek tijdens het interbellum geduid vanuit de categorie ruimte. Door het bestuderen van het leven en werk van twee tot het katholicisme bekeerde avant-gardisten, de Duitse schrijver en gangmaker van het dadaisme Hugo Ball en de Belgische schrijver Michel Seuphor, een pionier in het domein van de abstra…
Space and Mystic Contemplation. On the Self-Fashioning of Converted Avant-Gardists
Rajesh Heynickx, Espace et contemplation mystique. L’auto-structuration des avant-gardistes convertis. Dans cet article, l’émergence de la mystique catholique pendant l’entre-deux-guerres est expliquée en termes spatiaux. à partir de l’exemple de deux artistes d’avant-garde convertis, le littérateur allemand Hugo Ball et l’écrivain belge Michel Seuphor, le premier un initiateur du Dada et le second un pionnier dans le domaine de l’art abstrait, c…
The Muse of Mysticism. Transforming, Recycling Catholicism, 1900-1950
Obscure(d) Modernism: The Aesthetics of the Architect Pal Ligeti
On an old picture, taken in Budapest in the early 1930s, a little girl is leaning on the wall around the Halaszbastya or Fisherman's Bastion. From this mock fortification, built for the Hungarian Millennium celebrations of 1896, she had a marvellous view of the skyline of the Hungarian capital which was dominated by one building: the parliament (fig. 1). It is quite possible that the little girl was counting the number of white neo-gothic turrets…
Dissolution and Oneness. The Pragmatic Search for Truth and Order in Salomon Maimon's Geschichte des eigenen Lebens (1745-1800)
La vie de Salomon Maimon (1754-1800) fut ponctuee de difficultes. Il naquit en Europe de l'Est, une region qui etait, a cette epoque, encore pauvre et peu developpee. Avide de connaissances, il quitta son pays natal pour venir etudier la medecine a Berlin; mais, au coeur meme de ce symbole du siecle des Lumieres, il resta isole et incompris. Il ne fut jamais accepte nulle part, et vecut de la charite, habitant dans des granges. Cependant, il ne c…
Landscapes of Nostalgia: Life Scientists and Literary Intellectuals Protecting Belgium's 'Wilderness', 1900-1940
The nature protection movement in early twentieth-century Belgium mobilised activists of diverse backgrounds. Among these, two circles stand out. On the one hand, there was a group of life scientists, who gathered in the Belgian League for the Protection of Nature; on the other, a group of literary intellectuals, who organised themselves in the Society for Natural and Urban Beauty. In this article, the discursive strategies employed by both group…
Dissolution and Oneness. The Pragmatic Search for Truth and Order in Salomon Maimon's Geschichte des eigenen Lebens (1745-1800)
La vie de Salomon Maimon (1754-1800) fut ponctuee de difficultes. Il naquit en Europe de l'Est, une region qui etait, a cette epoque, encore pauvre et peu developpee. Avide de connaissances, il quitta son pays natal pour venir etudier la medecine a Berlin; mais, au coeur meme de ce symbole du siecle des Lumieres, il resta isole et incompris. Il ne fut jamais accepte nulle part, et vecut de la charite, habitant dans des granges. Cependant, il ne c…
Obscure(d) Modernism: The Aesthetics of the Architect Pal Ligeti
On an old picture, taken in Budapest in the early 1930s, a little girl is leaning on the wall around the Halaszbastya or Fisherman's Bastion. From this mock fortification, built for the Hungarian Millennium celebrations of 1896, she had a marvellous view of the skyline of the Hungarian capital which was dominated by one building: the parliament (fig. 1). It is quite possible that the little girl was counting the number of white neo-gothic turrets…
The Muse of Mysticism. Transforming, Recycling Catholicism, 1900-1950
Space and Mystic Contemplation. On the Self-Fashioning of Converted Avant-Gardists
Rajesh Heynickx, Ruimte en mystieke contemplatie. Over de self-fashioning van bekeerde avant-gardisten In dit artikel wordt de populariteit van mystiek tijdens het interbellum geduid vanuit de categorie ruimte. Door het bestuderen van het leven en werk van twee tot het katholicisme bekeerde avant-gardisten, de Duitse schrijver en gangmaker van het dadaisme Hugo Ball en de Belgische schrijver Michel Seuphor, een pionier in het domein van de abstra…
Space and Mystic Contemplation. On the Self-Fashioning of Converted Avant-Gardists
Rajesh Heynickx, Espace et contemplation mystique. L’auto-structuration des avant-gardistes convertis. Dans cet article, l’émergence de la mystique catholique pendant l’entre-deux-guerres est expliquée en termes spatiaux. à partir de l’exemple de deux artistes d’avant-garde convertis, le littérateur allemand Hugo Ball et l’écrivain belge Michel Seuphor, le premier un initiateur du Dada et le second un pionnier dans le domaine de l’art abstrait, c…
The Muse of Mysticism. Transforming, Recycling Catholicism, 1900-1950
Landscapes of Nostalgia: Life Scientists and Literary Intellectuals Protecting Belgium's 'Wilderness', 1900-1940
The nature protection movement in early twentieth-century Belgium mobilised activists of diverse backgrounds. Among these, two circles stand out. On the one hand, there was a group of life scientists, who gathered in the Belgian League for the Protection of Nature; on the other, a group of literary intellectuals, who organised themselves in the Society for Natural and Urban Beauty. In this article, the discursive strategies employed by both group…
Bridging the Abyss: Victor Basch's Political and Aesthetic Mindset
This essay cross-examines both the correlation and the disjunction between art philosophy and political reason in the thinking of the French Jewish art philosopher, Kant specialist and socialist politician Victor Basch (1863–1944). Two interwoven lines of questioning will be in play. One considers the extent to which Basch's theory of beauty, which was primarily grounded in a psychological theory of Einfühlung , was a corollary to his political i…
At the Crossroads between Catholicism and Modernist Art
The French Dominican monk and artist, Marie-Alain Couturier (1897–1954) was initially trained as a painter. He went on to become a friar at Le Saulchoir in Belgium, receiving his ordination in 1930. Largely recognized as the figure at the centre of the debate on the role of apostolic art in the 1940s and 1950s in France, he was a friend of many pioneers of modernist art, such as Braque, Matisse, and Picasso. Through this, he was an interlocutor b…
Conceptual Debts: Modern Architecture and Neo-Thomism in Postwar America
This article analyzes the formative role of medieval theology and aesthetics in the development of postwar American architecture by focusing on the architectural theory and practice of Mies van der Rohe and Jean Labatut, both of whom became actively interested in Neo-Thomism from the late 1940s. More specifically, a closer look at their reliance on the work of Jacques Maritain, the preeminent promotor of Neo-Thomism, sheds light on the transmissi…
A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70: Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue: A Matter of Interactions-Religion and Architectural Modernism, 1945-70
So What's New about Scholasticism: How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century
The Figure of Knowledge
Critical historiography of architectural theory\nIt 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 architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.\nYet the intellectual contours of what constitutes …
The Figure of Knowledge: Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s
"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 architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux…
From Inertia to the Absolute: On Visuality and Religion in Jean Labatut
This article offers an analysis of the ideas of the French architect Jean Labatut, who was the director of graduate studies at Princeton’s Department of Architecture in the post-Second World War years (1949–67). Throughout his career at Princeton (1928–67) he developed a pedagogical system centred on a visual engagement with the built environment. As a progressive Catholic, Labatut integrated spiritual concerns within his educational programme at…
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