Department of Architecture and Urban Planning

Ongoing PhDs

What design documents (can) do
Research on how design documents shape power, knowledge, and decisions in building projects. Three Flemish cases show how documents actively steer and structure the design process.
Wat Ontwerpdocumenten kunnen doen
Processes of commodification and valuation of architectural fragments
Research on how early‑20th‑century architectural fragments became commodities. Through case studies, it traces how actors shaped their value, trade, and reuse from dismantling to new contexts.
Architectural fragments owned by W.R. Hearst. Left: "an important [Moorish XIV century] wooden ceiling". Right: "a very rare gothic doorway"
Contemporary image constructions
PhD on how contemporary architectural images operate: analysing their construction, role within projects, and staged performances across institutions through three influential European practices.
Transition to Sustainable Building Stock & Transport System for Achieving Energy Efficiency in Growing Cities: A Case Study of Lahore Pakistan
Study on how Lahore can achieve energy‑efficient buildings and a sustainable transport system by analysing BRT‑corridor energy use and emissions, offering strategies to reduce GHG impacts.
Overgang naar een duurzaam voorraad- en transportsysteem voor het bereiken van energie-efficiëntie in groeiende steden: een casestudy van Lahore, Pakistan
Circular building solutions: a quantification of their environmental and financial impact
Research developing a probabilistic LCA/LCC method to quantify environmental and financial impacts of circular building solutions, clarifying their real benefits and guiding stakeholders.
Circulaire bouwoplossingen: een kwantificering van de milieu- en financiële impact
Architecture Exhibitions in 'Flanders', 1983-2010
Project mapping architecture exhibitions in Flanders (1983–2010), analysing how platforms and display spaces shaped public debate and contributed to emerging architectural policy.
'Homeward, Contemporary Architecture in Flanders', Antwerp, deSingel, 1999-2000