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- ISBN 9789464941647
- Weight: 1380g
- Dimensions: 230 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Hannibal Books
- Publication City/Country: BE
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This luxurious photo book commemorates the 600th anniversary of KU Leuven University, Belgium, featuring the work of renowned heritage and architecture photographer Karin Borghouts. Through her lens, Borghouts offers fresh and unexpected perspectives on the university's rich architectural heritage, capturing everything from auditoriums and laboratories to student residences, sports facilities, libraries, chapels, and more. Accompanying her striking images, historian Liesbet Nys delves into the storied history of KU Leuven. She offers an insightful narrative that complements the visual journey through one of Europe's oldest universities.
Liesbet Nys (b. 1976) studied history at KU Leuven, where she worked from 1998 to 2010. During her time there, she focused on research in areas such as degenerationism, university history, and the history of museum visits. Her doctoral dissertation, defended in June 2009, was dedicated to the latter subject. From 2010 to 2013, she continued her academic career as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Public History at Ghent University. In October 2013, she returned to the University of Leuven to resume her work in university history. After completing a project on the history of Leuven's medical faculty, she has been researching the history of research and research policy at KU Leuven since October 2016. Karin Borghouts is a professional Belgian artist photographer. She is working on her own projects and on commissioned assignments by art, cultural and heritage organisations, publishers, city councils, architects, museums.
