Secularized Engagement in Architecture: Sieg Vlaeminck’s Plea for Woonecologie in 1970s Flanders

During the 1970s the intellectual and cultural climate in Flanders increasingly matured, also in the field of architecture. This fledgling cultural renaissance was fed to a remarkable extent by intellectuals with a religious background who chose to reorient their careers outside the Church. This article focuses on one of those clerics-turnedpublic intellectuals: sociologist and former Passionist Sieg Vlaeminck (1933–2011), who during the 1970s advocated a scientifically grounded approach of the built environment, labelled woonecologie . His life trajectory unites (1) a plea for sciences, embod... Mehr ...