Perspectives on Architecture from the Distant Past (PADP) - a research group of the Department of Architecture at the KU Leuven - studies various aspects of the architectural legacy of the distant past: construction history, architectural agency, the building’s reception history and the impact of cross-cultural exchanges in shaping the built environment before globalization.
Between the late Middle Ages and the Interbellum, architecture and the built environment changed profoundly. These changes express the cultural transformation of the individual as both a self and a socio-political and religious being up to the radical transformations of postwar modernity. They do so from an indispensable interdisciplinary background rooted in building archaeology, architecture and engineering, material studies, cultural studies and philosophy. PADP offers a platform for studying architecture within the context of these long-term historical developments and brings together scholars from the Department of Architecture based in Leuven, Brussels and Ghent.
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