The PhD project aims to develop an analysis of how the postwar world engaged with the notion of space. To tackle this question, the PhD fellow may focus on exchanges between émigré intellectuals, philosophers, and architects, the initiation and adaptation of concepts of space in diverse didactic contexts (architectural laboratories, classrooms, lectures), and/or the interaction between different artistic media (architecture, cinema, painting, installations).
The project situates itself at the intersection of intellectual/art history, philosophy and architecture. It has both a historiographical and a conceptual aim. The scholarship is part of the larger project “Architectural Space Thought and Taught. Trading Zones of the Concept of Space, 1945-1980”, funded by the Research Fund KU Leuven (BOF). The successful applicant will write a PhD dissertation within the overarching theme of the historical development of spatial aesthetics and architectural theory. The project is chaired by Prof. Rajesh Heynickx, Prof. Stéphane Symons and Prof. Filip Mattens.
The PhD fellow will work in the context of the research group ARP (Architectural Cultures of the Recent Past at KU Leuven's Department of Architecture) and the Centre for Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Culture at KU Leuven's Institute of Philosophy.
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