Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage

Teaching unit ARCH-P8123 - AIM2 - Master 1 & 2

Teachers: David Lo Buglio (coordinator), Denis Derycke, Michel Lefèvre

Invited lecturer: Myriem Saoud, Jean Trottet & Alexandre Van Dongen

The AIM "Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage" module is divided into two compulsory seminars:

-The History and Theory of Architectural Representation seminar aims to develop specific theoretical knowledge of the history and theory of the graphic representation of architecture.

-The seminar on digital acquisition and graphic representation of built heritage offers a theoretical and practical introduction to survey techniques.

The aim of this module is to approach architectural representation in a different way from its practical application, and to explore the rich historical literature on the subject and learn how to exploit its content. Secondly, by experimenting with different digitisation techniques and methods, the aim of the course is to give students the resources, both technical and epistemological, to carry out an in-depth analysis of a heritage object and its context (topographical, urbanistic and stylistic). Students must also compare the theoretical point of view they have developed in the (History and Theory of Architectural Representation Seminars) with their digitisation work, in order to produce sets of critical and original representations.

2020-2023 theme - Stoclet Palace

The results of the studies carried out in the seminars are then used in an architectural analysis, modelling and graphic production project based on the Palais Stoclet. 

Commissioned by the Stoclet family in 1905 from the secessionist architect Josef Hoffmann, this private house is the most representative work of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Belgium. The palace has been listed several times. The exterior was first listed as a historic monument in 1976, followed by all the furnishings in 2006. Since 2009, the Stoclet Palace has been on UNESCO's World Heritage List, but remains inaccessible to the public. The palace's heritage value, combined with its inaccessibility, justifies the need for an in-depth study based on archives, as well as its dissemination to the public.

Featured Projects

2020-2021

Bassam Boughaba & Luca Etienne / Andrés Jiménez

2021-2022

Camille Audouin & Léo Soulard / Romain Fontaine & Lola Perret / Soumaya Fahem & Roman Godhair

2022-2023

Wiktoria Niemynska & Aurore Dulière / Sebastian Big & Alexandre Vandenhoeck / Anna Mansour & Dora Rousseau / Nicolas Delvosal & Thomas Delers / Lola Majoie & Serena Horn