Building for Belgium
How Belgium's decentralised embassy building programme highlights the collaborative nature and diplomatic significance of embassy architecture. Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic presence abroad. State authorities have invested in the architectural conception of...
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| author | De Maeyer, Bram |
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| description | How Belgium's decentralised embassy building programme highlights the collaborative nature and diplomatic significance of embassy architecture. Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic presence abroad. State authorities have invested in the architectural conception of purpose-built embassies to flex their diplomatic muscle and project nationhood on foreign soil. While scholars have primarily focused on purpose-built embassies of (former) world powers, Building for Belgium shifts the perspective by scrutinising the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ embassy-building programme from 1945 to 2020. Rather than a conventional political assessment of diplomatic relations, the book foregrounds the often-overlooked architectural lives of embassies and their social, economic, and political entanglements. By examining Belgian embassy projects across all continents, it reveals how the Belgian diplomatic corps has navigated diverse political regimes, geopolitical contexts, cultures, and building codes. More than the outcome of a deliberate policy, the embassy-building programme has been shaped by incidental decisions, private ambitions and personal tastes of Belgian diplomats, ministry officials and politicians. Building for Belgium not only sheds light on diplomatic architecture but also connects domestic conversations about architecture in Belgium with global state-building projects. Offering fresh insights into the politics of space, it will be of value to scholars and practitioners in architecture, urban studies, international relations, cultural heritage, and Belgian and European studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1688212025-11-06T05:04:43Z Building for Belgium De Maeyer, Bram Embassy Belgium Architecture Purpose-built Design Artwork Diplomacy Nationhood Bilateralism Globalisation thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMG Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history How Belgium's decentralised embassy building programme highlights the collaborative nature and diplomatic significance of embassy architecture. Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic presence abroad. State authorities have invested in the architectural conception of purpose-built embassies to flex their diplomatic muscle and project nationhood on foreign soil. While scholars have primarily focused on purpose-built embassies of (former) world powers, Building for Belgium shifts the perspective by scrutinising the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ embassy-building programme from 1945 to 2020. Rather than a conventional political assessment of diplomatic relations, the book foregrounds the often-overlooked architectural lives of embassies and their social, economic, and political entanglements. By examining Belgian embassy projects across all continents, it reveals how the Belgian diplomatic corps has navigated diverse political regimes, geopolitical contexts, cultures, and building codes. More than the outcome of a deliberate policy, the embassy-building programme has been shaped by incidental decisions, private ambitions and personal tastes of Belgian diplomats, ministry officials and politicians. Building for Belgium not only sheds light on diplomatic architecture but also connects domestic conversations about architecture in Belgium with global state-building projects. Offering fresh insights into the politics of space, it will be of value to scholars and practitioners in architecture, urban studies, international relations, cultural heritage, and Belgian and European studies. 2025-11-06T05:04:43Z 2025-11-06T05:04:43Z 2025-11-05T13:26:37Z 2025 book ONIX_20251105T142418_9789461666772_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108024 9789461666772 9789461666789 9789462704817 9789462704886 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168821 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108024/1/9789461666772.pdf Leuven University Press 10.11116/9789461666772 10.11116/9789461666772 9e472607-bec3-4b15-ba3f-f05039722389 bf70becf-1fc2-4a98-8089-204432a79b35 d42ec323-f315-4eef-be5c-2bfcfae04dcb 5ec28615-59b4-48ca-a450-69adf6b92f74 50fcb4f1-d6f5-497a-a4f5-16941795439a 34730b2b-f0f8-4771-a0cf-2c2bba68cf92 31510aab-325e-43d2-a6fd-278b2a5a9ac4 9789461666772 9789461666789 9789462704817 9789462704886 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access KU Leuven Leuven [...] [...] [...] [...] Open Book Collective OBC 10.13039/100032377 Universitaire Stichting University Foundation 10.13039/100013326 open access |
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