Hilde Heynen

Hilde Heynen (born 26 May 1959 in Deurne) is professor of architectural theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She researches modernism, modernity, and gender in architecture. Heynen is the author of several books and publishes regularly in architectural journals such as the Harvard Design Magazine, The Journal of Architecture, and The Architectural Review of which she is a member of the editorial board. She is also a board member of the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).

Heynen is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts since 2009.

Books Architecture and Modernity: A Critique. MIT Press, 1999 Dat is architectuur. Sleutelteksten uit de 20ste eeuw (co-editor). 010 Publishers, 2001 Back from Utopia. The Challenge of the Modern Movement. 010 Publishers, 2002 Inside Density. La Lettre Volée, 2003 Negotiating Domesticity. Routledge, 2005 The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE Publications, 2011. Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and its Discontents, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Grants The Research Foundation Flanders The Research Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The Netherlands Architecture Fund Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.