{"id":7488,"date":"2026-08-27T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:58:18","slug":"the-architectural-laboratory-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/2026\/08\/27\/the-architectural-laboratory-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Architectural Laboratory (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past thirty years, the number of architectural laboratories worldwide has increased explosively, from a handful to hundreds. Yet the term remains elusive. And why has it become so appealing to architects today?\u00a0<em>The Architectural Laboratory: Performing Design Research<\/em>\u00a0is the first book to critically address these questions and brings together a series of essays examining some of the most remarkable architectural laboratories of the twentieth century.<br \/>\nEdited by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/over-de-faculteit\/team\/members\/martens-janno\">Janno Martens<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/over-de-faculteit\/team\/members\/heynickx-rajesh\">Rajesh Heynickx<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arch.kuleuven.be\/over-de-faculteit\/team\/members\/mattens-filip\">Filip Mattens<\/a>\u00a0(Faculty of Architecture) together with St\u00e9phane Symons (Institute of Philosophy).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Architectural-Laboratory-Performing-Design-Research\/Martens-Heynickx-Mattens-Symons\/p\/book\/9781032891255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past thirty years, the number of architectural laboratories worldwide has increased explosively, from a handful to hundreds. Yet the term remains elusive. And why has it become so appealing to architects today?\u00a0The Architectural Laboratory: Performing Design Research\u00a0is the first book to critically address these questions and brings together a series of essays examining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,1,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/7492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}