Hilde Heynen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2140234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilde Heynen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilde |
| FAMILY NAME | Heynen |
| SIGNATURE | HEYNEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3920-4890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Dimensão Racial Da Desigualdade E Segregação Socioeconômica Em Brasília
Brasília foi idealizada como uma cidade que ofereceria as mesmas qualidades urbanísticas a todos, independentemente de classe social. Essa visão igualitária partia da ideia de que a desigualdade e a segregação socioespacial eram problemas essencialmente socioeconômicos. Contudo, mais de 60 anos após sua inauguração, Brasília tornou-se símbolo de desigualdade, especialmente pela exclusão da população mais pobre e negra. Apesar de dados demográfico…
I Should Have Done It So Much Earlier.” Older Adults Moving and Recreating a Sense of Home—Case Studies from Belgium
In Flanders, Belgium, most older people express the wish to continue aging in the dwelling they have lived in for decades. This is especially true when they had been actively involved in the building or renovation of their home—something which is quite common in the region. Flemish society strongly emphasizes homeownership, and the region’s history of building one’s own home has resulted in a culturally embedded attachment to that home and a resi…
Making Home(s) in Displacement
Making Home(s) in Displacement
Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, …
Slutwalks in Brasília. The Utopia of an Egalitarian City and Its Gendered Spaces
Whereas Brasília was envisaged as a utopian project that sought to create an egalitarian society, gender issues were not given prominent attention by its designers. As an egalitarian city, Brasilia aimed to offer to all its inhabitants, without social distinctions, equal opportunities and the urban qualities necessary for full human development. Also, Brasilia however has seen women claiming their full right to the city by organizing slutwalks. H…
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
"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…
At Home in Postwar France
The ‘Trente Glorieuses’—the thirty years after the end of the Second World War—constituted a unique period of unprecedented growth and prosperity in France. It was also a period that, with the construction of vast housing estates at the outskirts of the existing cities, changed the outlook of the French urban landscape. In the beginning of her book, Nicole C. Rudolph reminds us how poor the quality of housing really was immediately after the war:…
Campsites as Utopias? A Socio-Spatial Reading of the Post-War Holiday Camp in Belgium, 1950s to 1970s
This paper contrasts the objectives that underlie the development of government-funded holiday camps for family vacations in Belgium with the socio-spatial practices of their initial users. Drawing on oral history, archival material, photographs and site plans, we argue that holidaymakers did not just experience the holiday camp as an environment where they could reconnect with their family and pursue authentic experiences in close contact with n…
The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory
Introduction
status: Published
At Home with Displacement? Material Culture as a Site of Resistance in Sudan
This article displays the complexity and ambivalences that emerge as a result of a long-lasting condition of displacement. It discusses the experiences of war displaced persons, more specifically within the borders of their own countries, taking Sudan as a case study. Sudan is the country which has witnessed the largest number of ‘internally displacement persons’ (IDPs) worldwide. The paper focuses on both the physical displacement of the souther…
Uncanny and In-Between
Starting in the 1950s, postwar Belgian Flanders was a site of emerging and complex relationships among the car, garage, house, street and users. This article explores the shifting meanings of the garage in connection with the concepts of "domestication" and "domesticity." We question how the garage, as a newly configured spatial entity separated from or integrated within the home, is indicative of the gradual domestication of the automobile, and …
Belgium and the Netherlands
Belgium and the Netherlands are very different in their spatial outlook and in the way housing is organized. In Belgium individual private dwellings predominate whereas in the Netherlands social housing and planned neighborhoods are much more common. This article aims at unraveling the histories and sensibilities that led to this situation. It argues that the well-known diverging histories of architecture and urbanism make up only one explanation…
Anonymous architecture as counter-image
L’inscription du genre dans l’architecture
Les dernières décennies ont vu croître le nombre de publications consacrées aux croisements entre genre et architecture. Cet article passe en revue une partie importante de ces contributions à l’histoire et la théorie architecturale. Il classe ces publications selon une typologie se fondant sur différents paradigmes qui ont marqué les gender et women studies. Il opère également une distinction entre les points de vue qui se concentrent sur la con…
Shaping Popular Taste
After the Second World War the home took on a new relevance as a central concern for governments and citizens alike. In Belgium the need for new housing was met by stimulating private initiative through the Act De Taeye (1948), which provided fiscal incentives for home builders. As a result Belgium, and especially Flanders, has seen an early rise in home ownership, with a concomitant impact of the owners' own preferences on the formal outlook of …
Questioning Authenticity
Authenticity is an important category in cultural debates, and has emerged in parallel with the notion of 'modernity'. 'Authenticity' refers to the idea that something is 'real' or 'true', that its outer appearance is in correspondence with its inner being, in contrast to things that are 'fake' or 'false' or 'dissimulating'. Although the term thus seems to have a rather unequivocal meaning, its usage evokes quite some paradoxes. This article focu…
The Rational Kitchen in the Interwar Period in Belgium
Modernist architects introduced the rational kitchen to Belgium from 1930 onwards. The influence of the CIAM (Congrés Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne/International Congresses of Modern Architecture) discourse on the rational minimum dwelling was clearly visible, in architects' journals as well as in women's magazines. The most important Belgian contribution to the further development of the rational kitchen was the CUBEX kitchen, a design b…
Patterns of Displacement
The Rational Kitchen in the Interwar Period in Belgium
Modernist architects introduced the rational kitchen to Belgium from 1930 onwards. The influence of the CIAM (Congrés Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne/International Congresses of Modern Architecture) discourse on the rational minimum dwelling was clearly visible, in architects' journals as well as in women's magazines. The most important Belgian contribution to the further development of the rational kitchen was the CUBEX kitchen, a design b…
At Home with Displacement? Material Culture as a Site of Resistance in Sudan
This article displays the complexity and ambivalences that emerge as a result of a long-lasting condition of displacement. It discusses the experiences of war displaced persons, more specifically within the borders of their own countries, taking Sudan as a case study. Sudan is the country which has witnessed the largest number of ‘internally displacement persons’ (IDPs) worldwide. The paper focuses on both the physical displacement of the souther…
Questioning Authenticity
Authenticity is an important category in cultural debates, and has emerged in parallel with the notion of 'modernity'. 'Authenticity' refers to the idea that something is 'real' or 'true', that its outer appearance is in correspondence with its inner being, in contrast to things that are 'fake' or 'false' or 'dissimulating'. Although the term thus seems to have a rather unequivocal meaning, its usage evokes quite some paradoxes. This article focu…
Patterns of Displacement
Shaping Popular Taste
After the Second World War the home took on a new relevance as a central concern for governments and citizens alike. In Belgium the need for new housing was met by stimulating private initiative through the Act De Taeye (1948), which provided fiscal incentives for home builders. As a result Belgium, and especially Flanders, has seen an early rise in home ownership, with a concomitant impact of the owners' own preferences on the formal outlook of …
Patterns of Displacement
The Rational Kitchen in the Interwar Period in Belgium
Modernist architects introduced the rational kitchen to Belgium from 1930 onwards. The influence of the CIAM (Congrés Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne/International Congresses of Modern Architecture) discourse on the rational minimum dwelling was clearly visible, in architects' journals as well as in women's magazines. The most important Belgian contribution to the further development of the rational kitchen was the CUBEX kitchen, a design b…
Questioning Authenticity
Authenticity is an important category in cultural debates, and has emerged in parallel with the notion of 'modernity'. 'Authenticity' refers to the idea that something is 'real' or 'true', that its outer appearance is in correspondence with its inner being, in contrast to things that are 'fake' or 'false' or 'dissimulating'. Although the term thus seems to have a rather unequivocal meaning, its usage evokes quite some paradoxes. This article focu…
L’inscription du genre dans l’architecture
Les dernières décennies ont vu croître le nombre de publications consacrées aux croisements entre genre et architecture. Cet article passe en revue une partie importante de ces contributions à l’histoire et la théorie architecturale. Il classe ces publications selon une typologie se fondant sur différents paradigmes qui ont marqué les gender et women studies. Il opère également une distinction entre les points de vue qui se concentrent sur la con…
Shaping Popular Taste
After the Second World War the home took on a new relevance as a central concern for governments and citizens alike. In Belgium the need for new housing was met by stimulating private initiative through the Act De Taeye (1948), which provided fiscal incentives for home builders. As a result Belgium, and especially Flanders, has seen an early rise in home ownership, with a concomitant impact of the owners' own preferences on the formal outlook of …
Anonymous architecture as counter-image
Belgium and the Netherlands
Belgium and the Netherlands are very different in their spatial outlook and in the way housing is organized. In Belgium individual private dwellings predominate whereas in the Netherlands social housing and planned neighborhoods are much more common. This article aims at unraveling the histories and sensibilities that led to this situation. It argues that the well-known diverging histories of architecture and urbanism make up only one explanation…
At Home with Displacement? Material Culture as a Site of Resistance in Sudan
This article displays the complexity and ambivalences that emerge as a result of a long-lasting condition of displacement. It discusses the experiences of war displaced persons, more specifically within the borders of their own countries, taking Sudan as a case study. Sudan is the country which has witnessed the largest number of ‘internally displacement persons’ (IDPs) worldwide. The paper focuses on both the physical displacement of the souther…
Uncanny and In-Between
Starting in the 1950s, postwar Belgian Flanders was a site of emerging and complex relationships among the car, garage, house, street and users. This article explores the shifting meanings of the garage in connection with the concepts of "domestication" and "domesticity." We question how the garage, as a newly configured spatial entity separated from or integrated within the home, is indicative of the gradual domestication of the automobile, and …
The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory
Introduction
status: Published
Campsites as Utopias? A Socio-Spatial Reading of the Post-War Holiday Camp in Belgium, 1950s to 1970s
This paper contrasts the objectives that underlie the development of government-funded holiday camps for family vacations in Belgium with the socio-spatial practices of their initial users. Drawing on oral history, archival material, photographs and site plans, we argue that holidaymakers did not just experience the holiday camp as an environment where they could reconnect with their family and pursue authentic experiences in close contact with n…
At Home in Postwar France
The ‘Trente Glorieuses’—the thirty years after the end of the Second World War—constituted a unique period of unprecedented growth and prosperity in France. It was also a period that, with the construction of vast housing estates at the outskirts of the existing cities, changed the outlook of the French urban landscape. In the beginning of her book, Nicole C. Rudolph reminds us how poor the quality of housing really was immediately after the war:…
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
"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…
Making Home(s) in Displacement
Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, …
Slutwalks in Brasília. The Utopia of an Egalitarian City and Its Gendered Spaces
Whereas Brasília was envisaged as a utopian project that sought to create an egalitarian society, gender issues were not given prominent attention by its designers. As an egalitarian city, Brasilia aimed to offer to all its inhabitants, without social distinctions, equal opportunities and the urban qualities necessary for full human development. Also, Brasilia however has seen women claiming their full right to the city by organizing slutwalks. H…
Making Home(s) in Displacement
A Dimensão Racial Da Desigualdade E Segregação Socioeconômica Em Brasília
Brasília foi idealizada como uma cidade que ofereceria as mesmas qualidades urbanísticas a todos, independentemente de classe social. Essa visão igualitária partia da ideia de que a desigualdade e a segregação socioespacial eram problemas essencialmente socioeconômicos. Contudo, mais de 60 anos após sua inauguração, Brasília tornou-se símbolo de desigualdade, especialmente pela exclusão da população mais pobre e negra. Apesar de dados demográfico…
I Should Have Done It So Much Earlier.” Older Adults Moving and Recreating a Sense of Home—Case Studies from Belgium
In Flanders, Belgium, most older people express the wish to continue aging in the dwelling they have lived in for decades. This is especially true when they had been actively involved in the building or renovation of their home—something which is quite common in the region. Flemish society strongly emphasizes homeownership, and the region’s history of building one’s own home has resulted in a culturally embedded attachment to that home and a resi…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Architecture, Modernity, and Design (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)