Isabelle Doucet

Full Professor at Architectural theory and methods

Isabelle Doucet is professor of theory and history of architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where she also acts as ACE’s coordinator for the university-wide Gender Initiative for Excellence (Genie). Since joining Chalmers, Isabelle initiated the research project “Women Architects and 1968”, beginning with pilot research on women graduates at Chalmers. Previously Isabelle was based at the University of Manchester, Manchester School of Architecture, and has also taught at universities in Belgium, Italy, Germany, and The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the relationship between architecture, (urban) politics, and social responsibility with a focus on the 1970s and the repercussions of architecture's "post-political" turn. She examines such questions through both conceptual-methodological inquiries and historical and contemporary cases.

Isabelle’s books include The Practice Turn in Architecture. Brussels after 1968 (2015) and the co-edited volume Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism (2011, with Nel Janssens). She recently co-edited the thematic issue “Resist Reclaim Speculate. Situated Perspectives on Architecture and the City” (Architectural Theory Review, 2018, with Hélène Frichot) and had previously co-edited thematic issues for Footprint Journal and Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge. Isabelle’s research has been published in journals including Architecture & Culture, Architectural Theory Review, Oase Journal of Architecture, City Culture and Society, E-Flux, and the Journal of Educational Administration and History; and in edited volumes, such as the recently published Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement (Routledge 2018).

Since 2018, Isabelle acts as a general editor for Architectural Histories, the journal of the European Architectural History Network (https://journal.eahn.org). In 2018-2019, she participated in the Multidisciplinary Research Program titled “Architecture and/for the Environment” (https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/55861/multidisciplinary-research-program-architecture-andfor-the-environment) organised by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Showing 36 publications

2024

On Disappearance Within Architectural Writing

Isabelle Doucet, Helene Frichot, Janina Gosseye et al
Thresholds Journal. Vol. 52, p. 108-117
Journal article
2024

The Postmodernisms of Russell Hall: Exploring Australia’s Changing Architecture Culture Through a Biographical Approach

Janina Gosseye, Isabelle Doucet
Fabrications. Vol. In Press
Journal article
2023

Stories that resists, ethics that persist: A. J. Lode Janssens’ living experiment in 1970s suburban Belgium

Isabelle Doucet
Journal of Architecture. Vol. 28 (5), p. 805-824
Journal article
2023

Interspecies Encounters: Design (Hi)stories, Practices of Care, and Challenges

Isabelle Doucet
Environmental Histories of Architecture, ed. Kim Förster (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2022).
Book chapter
2022

Bus Tour Across the UK

Isabelle Doucet
Radical Pedagogies, p. 183-185
Book chapter
2022

Drawing as Activism

Isabelle Doucet
Radical Pedagogies, p. 104-105
Book chapter
2022

Architectural Storytelling: A Space Between Critical Practice and Fragile Environments

Isabelle Doucet
Infrastructural Love; Caring for Our Architectural Support Systems, p. 36-50
Book chapter
2021

Tales of Cities as (Resistant) Practices (REPRINT)

Isabelle Doucet
APPROACHES AND METHODS IN ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH Proceeding Series. Vol. 2021-1, p. 15-24
Paper in proceeding
2021

1968 and Beyond: The urban struggle on trial?

Isabelle Doucet
Urban Ethics. Conflicts over the Good and Proper Life in Cities (Routledge), p. 130-143
Book chapter
2021

Revisiting Environmental Learning: Cities, issues and bodies

Isabelle Doucet
Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th-Century Design (eds. Elke Couchez, Rajesh Heynickx), p. 189-201
Book chapter
2020

Entangled Histories. Architecture, Women, 1968

Isabelle Doucet
ArkDes Research Symposium on Architectural History 2018 (ArkDes), p. 116-125
Book chapter
2019

Metro/Education Montreal (1970): Rethinking the Urban at the Crossroads of Megastructures, Systems Analysis and Urban Politics

Isabelle Doucet
Architecture and Culture. Vol. 7 (2), p. 179-196
Journal article
2019

From Le Droit à la Ville to Rechte Räume. Legacies and legends of the Movement for the Reconstruction of the European City.

Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye, Anne Kockelkorn
Jaap Bakema Study Centre Annual Conferences
Paper in proceeding
2019

Anticipating Fabulous Futures

Isabelle Doucet
E-Flux Architecture
Magazine article
2019

Architectural Practice and Education “From the Inside Out”

Isabelle Doucet
Oase Journal for Architecture (102), p. 91-103
Magazine article
2019

Review: Mai 68: L'architecture aussi!

Isabelle Doucet
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Vol. 78 (3), p. 370-371
Magazine article
2018

Architecture and the Environment

Sophie Hochhausl, Torsten Lange, Ross Exo Adams et al
Architectural Histories. Vol. 6 (1)
Journal article
2018

Resist Reclaim Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture and The City

Isabelle Doucet, Helene Frichot
Architectural Theory Review. Vol. 22 (1)
Journal article
2018

Tales of Cities as (Resistant) Practices

Isabelle Doucet
Across Theory and Practice: Thinking through Urban Research. Berlin: Jovis, p. 111-119
Book chapter
2018

Understanding Social Engagement in Architecture: towards situated-embodied and critical accounts

Isabelle Doucet
The Routledge Companion to Architecture and Social Engagement (Routledge), p. 14-26
Book chapter
2018

Narrate, Speculate, Fabulate (published conversation)

Isabelle Doucet, Benedikte Zitouni, Didier Debaise
Architectural Theory Review. Vol. 22 (1), p. 9-23
Other text in scientific journal
2017

De Belgische ‘counter’ episode 1965-1980. Stad en architectuur tussen denken, durven en doen

Isabelle Doucet
Stadsgeschiedenis. Vol. 12 (1), p. 42-49
Magazine article
2017

Learning in the ‘Real’ World: encounters with radical architectures (1960s– 1970s)

Isabelle Doucet
Journal of Educational Administration and History. Vol. 49 (1), p. 7-21
Journal article
2016

Architecture Wrestling the Social: The “Live” Project as a Site of Contestation

Isabelle Doucet
Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge (10), p. 12-40
Other text in scientific journal
2016

Disruptive Design: on design gestures, breathing, and not-doing (published conversation)

Isabelle Doucet, Camillo Boano
Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge (10), p. 12-40
Other text in scientific journal
2016

Aesthetics between provocation and production: counter-projects

Isabelle Doucet
Oase (97), p. 91-98
Journal article
2016

Editors letter (Thematic issue Guest Editorship)

Isabelle Doucet, Kim Forster, Axel Sowa et al
Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge (10)
Other text in scientific journal
2015

ARAU (Atelier de recherche et d’action urbaines): counter-projects

Isabelle Doucet
Giovannia Borasi, ed. The Other Architect (Spector and Canadian Centre for Architecture)
Book chapter
2014

Architecture between Politics and Aesthetics. Peter Wilson’s “ambivalent criticality” at the 1970s Architectural Association

Isabelle Doucet
Architectural Theory Review. Vol. 19 (1), p. 98-115
Journal article
2013

Counter-projects and the postmodern user

Isabelle Doucet
Use Matters. An Alternative History of Architecture (Routledge), p. 233-247
Book chapter
2011

Learning from Brussels. An irreductive approach to architectural and urban problématiques?

Isabelle Doucet
BELGEO (1-2), p. 29-39
Journal article
2009

Agency in Architecture (editorial, thematic journal issue)

Isabelle Doucet, Kenny Cupers
Footprint (4)
Other text in scientific journal
2008

Brussels: The Soft Regeneration

Isabelle Doucet
Berg, Kaminer, et al., eds. Houses in Transformation, Interventions in European Gentrification (NAI Publishers), p. 130-143
Book chapter

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Showing 4 research projects

2022–2027

Green Participation. The Sociopolitics of Ecological Landscape Design in the Work of Louis le Roy

Isabelle Doucet Architectural theory and methods
KU Leuven
Research Foundation Flanders / Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

2020–2023

Women in Architecture Leadership: “the new normal” or future amnesia?

Isabelle Doucet Architectural theory and methods
GENIE, Chalmers Gender Initiative for Excellence
The Chalmers University Foundation

2020–2020

When Experts Meet: Learning from Histories of Sustainable Transport

Isabelle Doucet Architectural theory and methods
Per Lundin Science, Technology and Society
Nils Björling Urban Design and Planning
Chalmers

2 publications exist
2019–2022

Women in Architecture after 1968

Isabelle Doucet Architectural theory and methods
Bri Gauger Architectural theory and methods
Chalmers

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