LOCI
Place du Levant 1/L5.05.02
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Nele De Raedt
Professeure
I am an engineer-architect, specialized in the field of the Theory, History and Criticism of Architecture. I am mainly interested in late medieval and early modern architectural theory and its interactions with political theory, legal history, and the history of emotions. Although architectural treatises are part of the corpus of texts I study, I mainly work with moral and political literature, as well as legal texts, as such texts create theoretical models on architectural design and patronage, and discuss architecture in relation to broader societal questions.
Over the past years, I have made multiple research stays abroad, thanks to fellowships from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence - Max-Planck-Institut, the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome and the Academia Belgicae. As an active member of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), I contribute to the network's efforts to create international collaboration and conversation on the multiple histories of architecture.
CV
2020-present Assistant Professor in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, UCLouvain, Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urbanism (LOCI), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2019-2020 Doctoral Assistant, Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent, Belgium
2017-2018 Guest Professor, HoGent, School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2015-2016 Research Fellow at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institute, Florence, Italy
2012-2019 Research Assistant, Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent, Belgium
2011-2012 Engineer Architect, Urban Platform cvba, Brussels, Belgium
2023
De Raedt, Nele. Belonging to the Individual or the Collective? The Urban Residence as a Public/Private Building in Renaissance Italy (1300-1500). In: Privacy Studies Journal, Vol. 2, no./, p. 35-50 (2023). doi:10.7146/psj.v2i.132278.
2023
De Raedt, Nele. Magnificence, Dignity, and the Sociopolitical Function of Architectural Ornament: Cortesi's Discussion of the Cardinal's Architectural Patronage. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, no. 1, p. 1-38 (2023). doi:10.1017/rqx.2022.435.
2023
De Raedt, Nele. Over de bouwkunst. In: Bulletin KNOB, Vol. 1, no./, p. 52-54 (2023). doi:10.48003/knob.122.2023.1.779.
2022
De Raedt, Nele. Moins Trois: La création d’une installation artistique. In: Lieux-dits, Vol. 22, no.9, p. 2-9 (2022). doi:10.14428/ld.vi22.67133.
2022
De Raedt, Nele. Papal and municipal authority in the city: house-destruction as a legal punishment in Renaissance Rome. In: Urban History, Vol. /, no./, p. 1-17 (2022). doi:10.1017/S0963926822000748.
2021
De Raedt, Nele. Reviews Spring 2021. In: Architectural Histories, Vol. 9, no. 1, p. 8 (2021). doi:10.5334/ah.606.
2019
De Raedt, Nele. Beholding a Building in Admiration: Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria and the Renaissance Discourse on Magnificence. In: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. LXXXI, no.1, p. 239-248 (2018).
2015
De Raedt, Nele. Defacing. In: Aesthetics of Resistance, Pictorial Glossary, The Nomos of Images, (2015).
2021
De Raedt, Nele. Adorning the Prince and his Palace in Fifteenth Century Italy: Seeing, Admiration and Authority. In: Philipp Ekardt, Frank Fehrenbach and Cornelia Zumbusch, Politische Emotionen in den Künsten (Nele De Raedt), 2021, p. 43-56. 9783110725384.
2021
De Raedt, Nele. The Santacroce Houses along the Via in Publicolis in Rome: Law, Place and Residential Architecture in the Early Modern Period. In: Elizabeth Merrill, Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture (Nele De Raedt), 2021, p. 73-97. 9789463728027. doi:10.5117/9789463728027_CH02.
2016
De Raedt, Nele. Architecture. In: Marco Sgarbi, Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Springer Reference: Heidelberg, 2016. 978-3-319-02848-4. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_660-1.
2013
De Raedt, Nele. Een gemeenschappelijk project?. In: Thomas Cantraine, Maarten Van Den Driessche en Bram Vandemoortel, Achteraf Bovenop, A&S Books: Gent, 2013, p. 88-89. 9789076714424.
2023
De Raedt, Nele. Building a City Residence in Early Modern Italy: Magnificence as a Contribution or Threat to Social and Political Order?. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (San Juan, Puerto Rico, du 09/03/2023 au 11/03/2023).
2022
De Raedt, Nele. Magnificence and the Common Good: Architectural Patronage and Social Responsibility in the Early Modern Period. The Responsible Society in Early Modern Christianity: Voices & Fruits (Rome, du 13/06/2022 au 14/06/2022).
2022
De Raedt, Nele. Mirrors-for-Magistrates as Vehicles for Architectural Design Theories on the City and Its Buildings. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Dublin, du 30/03/2022 au 02/04/2022).
2021
De Raedt, Nele. Building the Peaceful City: Johann von Soest’s Wie men woll eyn statt regiern soll. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Online, du 13/04/2021 au 14/04/2021).
2021
De Raedt, Nele. Shaming, Making Community and Purification: Legal Punishments of Destruction of Private Property in Early Modern Rome. Early Modern Rome 4 (Rome, du 11/11/2021 au 14/11/2021).
2020
De Raedt, Nele. Impression and Memory: Monumental Architecture in the Italian Renaissance. Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference (online).
2018
De Raedt, Nele. Putting Up a Pose: The Prince’s Magnificent Palace in Fifteenth-Century Italy.. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (New Orleans).
2018
De Raedt, Nele. The Prince's Authority and Vulnerability: Making Use of the Effect of Admiration on the Beholder's Mind. Political Emotions in the Arts.
2016
De Raedt, Nele. Changing Perceptions of Gates and Doors: Popular Revolt in Fifteenth Century Italy. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Boston).
2014
De Raedt, Nele. The Cardinal’s Palace as an Instrument: How to be a Healthy, Well-tempered Man of Letters at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (New York).