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Researcher

Robby Fivez

Publications & Research Data

Awards & Distinctions

19 Results

2024

Construction history, above and beyond : setting up a dialogue with other historical disciplines

Laurence HeindryckxMichiel DehaeneDave De ruysscherRika DevosJohan LagaeIne WoutersTom BroesSimon De Nys-KetelsRobby FivezIgor Bloch et al.

2023

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

Robby FivezJohan LagaeRika DevosLuc TaerweJacob Sabakinu Kivilu

Tracing Mobutu’s spectre in Kinshasa’s Concrete Skyline through a builder’s archive : the case of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Johan LagaeRobby Fivez

2022

Borders / mobilities / landscapes : mapping railway infrastructure in (post)colonial Africa

Johan LagaeRobby Fivez

Cement as weapon : meta-infrastructure in the 'world's last cement frontier'

Robby FivezMonika Motylinska

Bookchapter in The Routledge handbook of infrastructure design : global perspectives from architectural history

’Tout le Congo est un chantier’ : notes on the archive of a (Post)colonial construction firm

Johan LagaeRobby Fivez

Bookchapter in African modernism and its afterlives

2021

Historicizing material properties : between technological and cultural history

Simon De Nys-KetelsRobby FivezK. Lloyd Thomas

2020

The rubble in the jungle : a fragmented biography of Lukala’s cementscape, DR Congo

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

2019

Exporter le modèle de 'l'usine idéale' vers l'Afrique : le cas de Bata 300 à Kinshasa, RD Congo, 1962

The difficult introduction of prestressed concrete in sub-saharan Africa : the construction of the CCC-building, 1950-1951.

The Guide schématique de la ligne [1957] : tracing the infrastructure landscape along the Matadi-Kinshasa railway line (DR Congo) through a living archive

A2 Journal Article in ABE JOURNAL

The visual, the accidental and the actual in the historiography of the fort of Shinkakasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1891- 1909

Willem BekersRobby Fivez

2018

' Elle pousse, la Capitale Champignon! ' : Questioning skill in the Belgian Congo’s building industry

Exporting prestressed concrete to Africa : the construction of the Bata 300 shoe factory in Kinshasa, DR Congo, 1962-1965

2017

Consuming Kinshasa : Private developers and their city-building projects during the colonial and post-colonial era.

2016

'Tout le Congo est un Chantier': The Bata 300 shoe factory as a plea for a Construction History for DR Congo

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