PhD dissertations

2024

• Exercising fragility in theatres and beyond

  David Weber-Krebs — 16/12/2024

• Three pathways towards a sustainable transition of Flemish dwellings: what are the shifts in the environmental trade-off?

  Yanaika Decorte — 28/11/2024

• ‘Lees onze advertenties!’ Nederlandse architectuurtijdschriften als spreekbuis en onderneming, 1929-1940

  Roelof Griffioen — 08/11/2024

• Approach for environmental assessments of remountable building elements: navigating reuse uncertainties

  Lisa Van Gulck — 17/10/2024

• Architecture (de)mobilised: (digital) explorations of the Belgian (post-)military construction site

  Willem Bekers — 26/09/2024

• The web as a common data environment: management of federated multi-models

  Jeroen Werbrouck — 09/04/2024

2023

• Increasing reliability of bottom-up building-stock energy models using available data-driven techniques

  Matthias Van Hove — 26/06/2023

• Untangled: climate projections for hygrothermal modelling of building envelopes

  Isabeau Vandemeulebroucke — 31/05/2023

• Modelling of a gas-fired condensing boiler and an air to water heat pump for hybrid heat pump system integration in residential buildings

  Katarina Simić — 02/05/2023

• Holistic performance assessment of residential ventilation systems

  Klaas De Jonge — 28/04/2023

• Fourth and fifth generation district heating systems: methodology, design and development

  Joseph Maria Jebamalai — 21/04/2023

• Urbanising the agroecological reproduction of soil fertility

  Hans Vandermaelen — 02/02/2023

• Adapting the passive tracer gas test technique to current challenges for simultaneous measurement of ventilation rates and indoor air quality indicators

  Sarah Lima Paralovo — 31/01/2023

• A concrete state: constructing materials and building ambitions in the (Belgian) Congo

  Robby Fivez — 23/01/2023

2022

• Long term potential of hybridGEOTABS in the clean energy transition of the EU non-residential building stock

  Rana Mahmoud — 16/12/2022

• Fourth Generation Watertightness: a performance-based strategy to control rainwater infiltration in façade systems

  Stéphanie Van Linden — 25/08/2022

• Early-stage integrated design methods for hybrid GEOTABS buildings

  Mohsen Sharifi — 07/07/2022

• Béton Brut: André Bloc and the architecture-sculpture debate

  Angelique Campens — 13/06/2022

2021

• Associations between bedroom ventilation and sleep quality

  Chenxi Liao — 20/12/2021

• Myths and realities of the Belgian medical model colony: a genealogy

  Simon De Nys-Ketels — 16/11/2021

• Window use habits as an example of habitual occupant behaviour in residential buildings

  Silke Verbruggen — 27/09/2021

• Urbanisons! Urbanising the Antwerp agglomeration, 1907-1939

  Tom Broes — 16/06/2021

• Architecture and urban culture in Tehran in the twentieth century

  Niloofar Amini — 19/03/2021

2020

• Evaluation of cultural ecosystem services in urban green infrastructure: from concept to practice

  Xin Cheng — 07/10/2020

• Green infrastructures to mitigate the urban surface water flooding risk: identifying and planning the priority areas in Ghent

  Luyuan Li — 02/07/2020

• Renovation of historical facades: the rescue or the kiss of death?

  Klaas Calle — 21/02/2020

2019

• Architectures of bureaucracy: an architectural and political history of ministerial offices in Belgium, 1915-1940

  Jens Van de Maele — 13/12/2019

• Urban questions in the countryside: urbanization and the collective consumption of electricity in Belgium, 1900-1940

  Dieter Bruggeman — 13/05/2019

• Injured residences: fame, reputation and self-preservation in Renaissance Italy

  Nele De Raedt — 25/03/2019

• (Dis)placed interventions: making public space in urban landscapes

  Elly Van Eeghem — 21/02/2019

2018

• Spontaneity and Urban Design: Exploring Everyday Life Practices and the Formation of Lived Space in Yüksel Street

  Duygu Cihanger — 20/12/2018

• Coupled thermohydraulic and biologic modelling of Legionella pneumophila proliferation in domestic hot water systems

  Elisa Van Kenhove — 18/12/2018

• Architectural culture and building practice in 19th-century Belgium: the case of Louis Roelandt (1786-1864), architect, academic, civil servant

  Pieter-Jan Cierkens — 15/10/2018

• Preventive conservation of works of art in historic buildings: assessment and modelling

  Lien De Backer — 12/03/2018

• The architecture of photography

  Ives Maes — 07/06/2018

2017

• The critical residue: creativity and order in architectural design theory, 1972-2012

  Sven Verbrugge — 13/10/2017

• Policies, people, projects: school building as development aid in postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa

  Kim De Raedt — 06/10/2017

• Characterisation of residential energy use for heating using smart meter data

  Eline Himpe — 28/06/2017

2015

• Computer-aided exploration of architectural design spaces: a digital sketchbook

  Tiemen Strobbe — 19/11/2019

• Improving the predictive power of simplified residential space heating demand models: a field data and model driven study

  Marc Delghust — 06/11/2015

• Victor Bourgeois (1897-1962): radicaliteit en pragmatisme. Moderniteit en traditie

  Iwan Strauwen — 28/05/2019

2014

• Architecture, a user's manual: theory, criticism and history since 1950 according to Geert Bekaert

  Christophe Van Gerrewey — 21/05/2014

2013

• 'Les Hommes de la Route': engineering the urban society of the modern road in Belgium, 1889-1962

  David Peleman — 22/11/2013

• The monographic factor: theoretical and architectural aspects of single-artist museums

  Maarten Liefooghe — 30/08/2019

• Design strategies for residential ventilation systems

  Sylvie Van Damme — 22/05/2019

• Landschapsontwerp in Vlaanderen: landschap als narratief en integrerend medium in de ruimtelijke ontwerppraktijk

  Jelle Laverge — 01/07/2013

• Making the African City: Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Kinshasa; 1920-1980

  Luce Beeckmans — 21/01/2013

• Watertightness of building components: principles, testing and design guidelines

  Nathan Van Den Bossche — 16/01/2013

2012

• Architectural design models and performance evaluation: bridging the gap?

  Ruben Verstraeten — 13/10/2012

• Reconsidering information system support for architectural design thinking

  Pieter Pauwels — 19/06/2012

• Convective heat transfer modelling in offices with night cooling

  Kim Goethals — 06/06/2012

• In search of the picturesque: een onderzoek naar het pittoreske in de landschapsfotografie (1850-2012)

  Jan Kempenaers — 16/05/2012

2011

• Universalism as utopia: a historical study of the schemes and schemas of Paul Otlet (1868-1944)

  Wouter Van Acker — 07/11/2011

• Building in concrete in Belgium (1890-1975): interplay of knowledge, experiment and innovation

  Stephanie Van de Voorde — 23/02/2011

• Glorious temples or Babylonic whores: the architecture of church buildings in England 1603-1736 according to consecration sermons

  Anne-Françoise Morel — 02/02/2011

2010

• Hygrothermal modelling for building energy simulation applications

  Marijke Steeman — 22/03/2010

2009

• De architectuur van het schoolcomplex in de Belgische context (1842-1972)

  Maarten Van Den Driessche — 09/11/2009

• (Dis)placed interventions: making public space in urban landscapes

  Elly Van Eeghem — 21/02/2009

• 'Ouvrons les yeux!': stedenbouw en beeldvorming van het landschap in België 1890-1940

  Bruno Notteboom — 18/02/2009

2008

• Modern at Expo 58. Discussions on post-war architectural representation

  Rika Devos — 12/09/2008

2006

• Natural night ventilation in office buildings: performance evaluation based on simulation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis

  Hilde Breesch — 28/06/2006

• Lessen in modern wonen: een architectuurhistorisch onderzoek naar de communicatie van modellen voor 'goed wonen' in België 1945-1958

  Fredie Floré — 09/05/2006

• Standards-based interfaces for harvesting and obtaining assets from digital repositories

  Jeroen Bekaert — 24/04/2006

• Choosing history: a study of Manfredo Tafuri's theorisation of architectural history and architectural historical practice

  Andrew Leach — 23/02/2006

2005

• Benedetto Varchi en de geboorte van het artefact. Architectuur, alchemie en macht in het Florence van de late Renaissance

  Lionel Devlieger — 2005

2004

• Iannis Xenakis ingenieur en architect: een thematische analyse van het oeuvre, gevolgd door een kritische inventaris van de samenwerking met Le Corbusier, de architecturale projecten en de multimedia-installaties

  Sven Gustav Sterken — 22/09/2004

2003

• Museumarchitectuur van Centre Pompidou tot Tate Modern: verschuivingen in het artistieke begrip van openbaarheid en hun impact op het programma van het museum voor hedendaagse kunst

  Wouter Davidts — 2003

2002

• Kongo zoals het is: drie architectuurverhalen uit de Belgische kolonisatiegeschiedenis (1920-1960)

  Johan Lagae — 2002

2001

• La fenice degl'ingegni: een alternatief perspectief op Gianlorenzo Bernini en zijn werk in de geschriften van Sforza Pallavicino

  Maarten Delbeke — 29/11/2001