Inge Bertels

Prof. Dr. Inge Bertels is a historian (KULeuven, 1998) and master in Conservation (R. Lemaire Centre for Conservation KULeuven, 2000). After her studies she worked as an architectural historian at the Antwerp Architect’s offices R. Steenmeijer & H. Baksteen (1999-2000). From October 2000 to October 2006 she was related to the R. Lemaire International Centre for Conservation and the research group Architectural History of the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning of the KULeuven, where, in April 2008 she successfully defended her PhD ‘Building the City, Antwerp 1819-1890’. Since 2008 she started teaching architectural history and theory at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and combined this with a research position as postdoctoral fellow of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek at the Department of History of the Universiteit Antwerpen.Since October 2012 she holds a full-time position as lecturer at Departments of Architectural Engineering and Art History & Archaeology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Her research focuses on the intersection of nineteenth and twentieth century architectural history, urban history and construction history. She is a member of EAHN (European Architectural History Network), SAH (Society of Architectural Historians), DOCOMOMO (Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement), KCML (Koninklijke Commissie Monumenten en Landschappen) as well as a member of the advisory board or the Journal of Construction History and editor of the journal Stadsgeschiedenis