Research projects Maarten Liefooghe
Architecture Exhibitions in 'Flanders', 1983-2010
Belgium has never had a national architecture museum or architecture center. At least since the mid-1980s, however, a diffuse landscape emerged of small and mid-sized platforms - organizations as well as gallery spaces - that put architecture on display.
Curating Architecture in the Expanded Field of Historic Preservation: 1:1 Models and In Situ Interventions
Contemporary architecture exhibitions might contain solutions to challenges in preserving the built environment.
Exhibition 'Open Call. 20 Years of Public Architecture'
This project is an explorative research of the Open Call architecture competition procedure as developed and used by the Flemish Government Architect between 1999 and 2019
Expolab: Exhibition & Lecture Series
Expolab was a public research programme about exhibiting architecture, from October 2014 to March 2015. It consisted of a public masterclass, a lecture series and an exhibition.
Reconstruction Architecture in the Front Zone of ‘14-’18
During the reconstruction of WWI, a whole new landscape was laid out in the front zone. Woods had disappeared and were only partially replanted.
The monographic factor: theoretical and architectural aspects of single-artist museums
Doctoral dissertation Maarten Liefooghe
Urbanism and Heritage in Ostend
Commissioned by AGSO (the autonomous municipal company for city renewal of Ostend), Labo S conducted a literature study in order to support a Plan of Action for the Built Heritage in the city of Ostend.