Heynen, Hilde

Bio Sketch

Hilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist (Professor of Architectural Theory, KU Leuven) working on modernity, critical theory, dwelling, and feminist theory of architecture. She is a central figure in Geoffrey's modernity & dwelling area.

Key Works

• Architecture and Modernity: A Critique (1999).
• Work on Adorno, Benjamin, the Venice School, and gender and domesticity in architecture.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Dwelling
• Critical Architecture
• Everyday Life
• Ideology

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Heynen anchors Geoffrey's modernity & dwelling and postmodernism & critique areas: her programmatic/transitory and pastoral/counterpastoral modernisms, and her reading of Adorno's mimesis as architecture's critical path, frame the question of dwelling and critique under modernization.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Architecture and Modernity: A Critique
• Meaning and Effect: Revisiting Semiotics in Architecture (with André Loeckx)