Claudine Houbart
Claudine Houbart is an architect (ULiège, 1996), has a master in art history and archaeology (ULB, 2000) and an advanced master in Conservation of Monuments and Sites (KU Leuven, Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, 2002) as well as a PhD in engineering sciences (KU Leuven, 2015). Her research focuses on the history of the principles and practices of conservation-restoration in the 19th and 20th centuries (see among others the RE-Site project), as well as on the conceptualization of contemporary practices for the valorisation of an expanded heritage (CoToCoCo project). Following on from her PhD, questioning Raymond M. Lemaire's contribution in the field of urban renewal at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, she is particularly interested in the process of elaboration of doctrinal documents, such as the Venice Charter (see project to/from Venice), and in the constitution and development of networks in the field of conservation-restoration (see LinkedHerit project). Within the DIVA group, she is currently the promoter of the PhDs of Antoine Baudry (co-promoter Mathieu Piavaux, UNamur), Maxime Coq, Negin Eisazadeh (co-supervised with the KU Leuven, promoter Ann Heylighen) and Stéphanie Wey (co-promoter Mathieu Piavaux, UNamur). She is also the co-supervisor with UHasselt of Nadin Augustiniok's thesis ("Value assessment in adaptive reuse: towards an integrated framework", promoter Koenraad Van Cleempoel) and co-promoter of Mathilde Macaux's thesis ("The reuse of rural monastic sites in Belgium in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century (1793-1950), UNamur, promoter M. Piavaux). She represents Belgium in the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Theory and Philosophy of Conservation, and is a member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.
Claudine Houbart
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