Research Explorer

Your browser does not support JavaScript or JavaScript is not enabled. Without JavaScript some functions of this webapplication may be disabled or cause error messages. To enable JavaScript, please consult the manual of your browser or contact your system administrator.

Project

“Tout le Congo est un chantier”. Re-assessing Congo’s architectural history from 1918 till 1975 through a construction history approach

Outputs and Outcomes

Publications

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

Robby FivezJohan LagaeRika DevosLuc TaerweJacob Sabakinu Kivilu

Epilogue : Buildings and people : interdisciplinarity, juxtaposition and experimentation

Paul Wenzel GeisslerJohan Lagae

Bookchapter in African modernism and its afterlives

’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

African modernism and its afterlives

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

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.

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

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