Robby Fivez

Postdoc researcher

VUB — Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Faculty of engineering Department of architectural engineering

Ghent University Faculty of engineering and architecture Department of architecture and urban planning

Construction history of the Belgian Congo (1908-1960)

Johan Lagae & Robby Fivez (2022) ‘Tout le Congo est un chantier’. Notes on the archive of a (post)colonial construction firm in African Modernism and its Afterlives, Eds. Berre, N., Geissler, P.W., Lagae J. (Bristol: Intellect Publishers). Robby Fivez & Monika Motylinska (2022): Infrastructures and Networks of Cement in Africa across the 20th Century in Infrastructure Designs: Global Perspectives from Architectural History, Ed. Heathcott J., pp. 40-50 (New York: Routledge). Robby Fivez (2020): The Rubble in the Jungle: a fragmented biography of Lukala’s cementscape, DR Congo in Journal of Landscape Architecture (1), 78-87. Robby Fivez (2019): The ‘Guide schématique de la ligne’ [1957] Tracing the infrastructure landscape along the Matadi-Kinshasa railway line (DR Congo) through a living archive. in ABE journal (14/15), online. Willem Bekers & Robby Fivez (2019): The visual, the accidental and the actual in the historiography of the fort of Shinkakasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1891- 1909. in Water, doors and buildings: Studies in the history of construction, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Construction History Society, Cambridge, UK, April 2019, 392-406.

EOS-project: Construction History Above and Beyond