Hilde Heynen (born 26 May 1959 in Deurne) is professor of

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at the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. Founded in 1425, it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In addition to its main camp ...

. She researches

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, and

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in architecture. Heynen is the author of several books and publishes regularly in architectural journals such as the ''

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'', The '' Journal of Architecture'', and ''

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'' of which she is a member of the editorial board. She is also a board member of the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). Heynen is a member of the

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (, , abbr. KVAB) is an independent learned society of science and arts of the Flemish Community in Belgium. It is one of Belgium's numerous academies and traces its origin to 1772 when ...

since 2009.

Academic career

She has graduated from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where she has studied both philosophy and architecture. She has also spent some time in J. Paul

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as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Beside being a professor of architecture theory at the

, Heynen works with

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

, the

Architectural Association School of Architecture The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest private school of architecture in the UK. The AA hosts exhibitions, lectures, academic conference, symposia and publications. Histo ...

in London, and

RMIT University The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

in Melbourne as visiting professor.

Books

* '' Architecture and Modernity: A Critique''. MIT Press, 1999 * ''Dat is architectuur. Sleutelteksten uit de 20ste eeuw'' (co-editor). 010 Publishers, 2001 * ''Back from Utopia. The Challenge of the Modern Movement''. 010 Publishers, 2002 * ''Inside Density''. La Lettre Volée, 2003 * ''Negotiating Domesticity''. Routledge, 2005 * ''The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory'', SAGE Publications, 2011. * ''Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and its Discontents'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Grants

* The Research Foundation Flanders * The Research Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven * The Netherlands Architecture Fund * Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

References

External links

Profile and CV at KU LeuvenTexts by Hilde Heynen at the Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse LetterenTeam. Hilde Heynen
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