The Antwerp (Stair) Case: How a Modernist Architect Staged His Educational and Ideological Programme

Autor/in	Couchez, Elke
Titel	The Antwerp (Stair) Case: How a Modernist Architect Staged His Educational and Ideological Programme
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 53 (2017) 6, S.799-826 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2017.1391853
Schlagwörter	Educational History; School Buildings; Architectural Education; Urban Planning; Foreign Countries; Painting (Visual Arts); Educational Change; Curriculum Development; Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; School building; Schulgebäude; Stadtplanung; Ausland; Malerei; Bildungsreform; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Belgien
Abstract	This paper looks at the educational project of Belgium's acclaimed socialist and modernist architect Renaat Braem (1910-2001). While Braem is foremost remembered as a militant opinion maker, his work as an educator and an artist has received little scrutiny. When Braem was appointed interim director at the Antwerp National Higher Institute for Architecture and Urban Planning (NHIBS) in 1962, his first action point was not to change the curriculum. He instead reconstructed the physical configuration of the school. With an eye-catching staircase painting, he accentuated an important passage in the school building: the one from the administrative offices and library to the architectural studios. Claiming a central position in the institute, the staircase functioned as a stage and an auditorium on which an ideological and educational programme was enacted in an implicit, yet very physical manner. This article not only looks at what the painting represents, but also at "how" it represents by applying Randolph Starn's three categories of seeing: the glance, the measured view, and the scan. This threefold reading of the painting enables us to unpack (a) Braem's educational project based on a socialist ideology and (b) the institutional climate of the 1960s. In the institutional debates, hovering between tradition and the rationalisation of education, Braem's staircase painting proposed a third way. It revised the existing doctrines by reconciling the rational approach with a stronger focus on the human in the built environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01