Code
3G027811
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- History
- Architectural design
- Architecture
- Art studies and sciences
- Interior architecture
- Visual arts
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Engineering and technology
- Architectural engineering
- Architecture
- Interior architecture
Keywords
people’s house
labour movements
volkshuis
socialism
architecture
workers’ assembly building
maison du peuple
History
Project description
This PhD aims to investigate the interactions and entanglements between architecture and the political culture of labour movements in prewar Europe by focusing on the architectural phenomenon of the often spectacular social democratic Maisons du Peuple or ‘People’s Houses’ that were built around the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century in a wide range of European cities. The objective is a clear-cut transnational and interdisciplinary study which tries to unravel the ways architects dealt with the complex interdependence between ideology, self-affirmation, aesthetics and technology.