Teaching Re-use Strategies for Modernist Buildings.

A Joint European Master in Architecture

Authors

  • Els De Vos University of Antwerp
  • Eva Storgaard University of Antwerp

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8681_9_11

Abstract

The joint European+ project Re-use of Modernist Buildings (RMB) started its activities in 2016. It is an educational collaboration between different European universities and organisations. The main objectives of this initiative is on the one hand to enhance student and staff mobility through a shared educational programme on master degree level; on the other hand it is to develop transformation strategies for modernist  buildings, mainly from the post-war period. RMB wants to develop an educational approach to this specific architectural heritage based on common definitions, approaches and methodologies. It takes its point of departure in existing research, educational practices and reference projects in the partner countries. This paper discusses the need for appropriate approaches to modernist buildings, definitions of re-use strategies and the position of RMB – as well as how the project’s educational programme is conceived and structured. Additional a more detailed description of the concept and the making of a so-called Case Study Handbook of Modernist Buildings follows, illuminating its asset as an important research and design tool.

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Author Biographies

Els De Vos, University of Antwerp

Els De Vos, engineering architect and spatial planner, is associate professor at the Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp. De Vos wrote PhD dissertation on the architectural, social and gender-differentiated mediation of dwelling in 1960s–1970s Belgian Flanders (published in 2012 by Leuven University Press). She has co-edited several books in the field of architecture, including Van academie tot universiteit [From Academy to University. 350 years of Architecture in Antwerp]  and Theory by Design. Architectural research made explicit in the Design Studio (both 2013, Antwerp University Press), and published in several journals, including Technology and Culture and Home Cultures. She is a member of the scientific committee of the new magazine Inner – The interior architecture (www.innermagazine.org) and she coordinates for the UAntwerp the Erasmus+ project Re-Use of Modernist Buildings – Design Tools for Sustainable Transformation. In this framework she is preparing a Case Study Handbook on the theme.

Eva Storgaard, University of Antwerp

Eva Storgaard studied architecture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Currently she is teaching (Master Interior Architecture) and writing a doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp. Her PhD research addresses Danish post-war modernism and its architectural innovations (1945-1970). She is the co-author of Pieter De Bruyne 1931-1987 (2012). Recently she started a research project at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, that examines postwar interdisciplinary exchanges between interior architecture and art.

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Published

2018-12-25

Issue

No. 9 (2018): Reuse of Modernist Buildings: pedagogy and profession

Section

RMB Case Study Essays

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