Jo Braeken is an art historian and heritage researcher at the Flanders Heritage Agency. Within the Inventory and Protection department, he focuses on 20th-century architecture research. He is curator of the Renaat Braem House, led the research project Renaat Braem 1910-2010 from 2005 to 2010, and was editor of the oeuvre catalog Renaat Braem Architect 1910-2001. He has published numerous contributions on 20th-century architecture, the typology of synagogues, airports, and high-rise buildings in Belgium. He was (co-)curator of exhibitions about the Middelheim Pavilion and tower buildings in Antwerp (Hoger/Higher/Plus haut). He is an active member of Icomos ISC Twentieth Century Heritage (ISC20C) and Docomomo Belgium.

Yves De Bont graduated from Sint-Lucas in Brussels in 1971. In the 1970s, as an independent architect, he designed several interesting homes and the den Brand district for the Turnhout Housing Company. From 1971 to 2009, he taught at the Holy Sepulchre Institute in Turnhout and helped establish the architectural drawing, interior design, and architectural formation programs. His expertise in regional architecture was demonstrated as curator and (co-)author of the exhibitions 100 Years of Housing in Turnhout and Paul Neefs, Houses 1958-1983. At Ar-Tur, he helped develop the documentary film Domestic Modernism.

Els De Vos, engineer-architect (Ghent University) and spatial planner (KU Leuven), holds a doctorate in engineering sciences-architecture (KU Leuven, 2008). She is a professor and head of research in the Architectural Sciences department within the Artesis-University of Antwerp association. Her research interests include post-war architecture, living culture and interior design, public space, and gender. She is engaged in various action groups, reviews for Technology and Culture, and regularly publishes in (inter)national journals and books. In March 2012, the commercial edition of her dissertation was published, titled How Would We Like to Live? Housing Discourses in Flanders During the Sixties and Seventies, by Leuven University Press.

Janina Gosseye studied architecture at Sint-Lucas College in Brussels and is currently a doctoral student at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the development of new public and collective facilities in Flanders after World War II. In 2011, she published the results of her research in a book titled Architecture for Leisure Culture, published by LannooCampus. Several of her papers have also been included in international academic journals, including The Journal of Architecture and The Journal of Urban History.

Stefaan Grieten holds a degree in archaeology and art history and is a doctoral candidate in engineering sciences (KU Leuven-ASRO). He is affiliated with the Architectural Archive of the Province of Antwerp. He has published contributions on painting and iconography in Southern Netherlands art (15th-18th centuries), religious heritage, intercultural reception history and exoticism, panoramas and dioramas, monument conservation, and architectural history.

Lodewijk Joye studied at the College of Science & Art in Ghent and holds a master’s degree in visual arts. He specializes in fashion, heritage, opera, and architecture. His clients include the Reading Foundation, Flemish Opera, Lido, ASP Edition, LannooCampus, Christophe Coppens, the Flemish Architecture Institute, the Center for Flemish Architectural Archives, Mechelen Heritage Cell, and the Province of West Flanders. Lodewijk Joye won the Quadrennial Design Award from the Province of West Flanders in 2008. In 2009, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam included his work in the ‘Graphic Design’ collection. The Building Blocks Book was awarded the Plantin Moretus Prize. In 2012, he was selected by Design Flanders for the exhibition 21 Years of Cultural Posters in Flanders.

Dirk Laureys is a historian affiliated with the Architectural Archive of the Province of Antwerp, which falls under the Heritage Department of the Antwerp Provincial Government. He contributed to the reference work Repertory of Architecture in Belgium (2003) and was editor and author of the 2004 publication Building in Focus. The Collection of the Architectural Archive of the Province of Antwerp. He was co-author of From Fairy Tale Garden to Model City. Antwerp 1930 and the Exhibition District (2005) and contributed to the publication and exhibition project Hoger/Higher/Plus Haut. Panoramic Antwerp ( 2006).

Lander Loeckx has been working as a freelance photographer since 2001. He creates reportages, architectural and urban photography for organizations including the Flemish Community Commission, the Federation of the Concrete Industry, the Province of Flemish Brabant, Flagey, and Monuments and Landscapes. His portfolio also includes portrait, dance, and theater photography. His work as a freelance photographer doesn’t prevent him from initiating his own projects. He is one of the core members of BETONROT, a group of artists researching various exhibition possibilities.

Francis Strauven is an architect and architectural historian. He studied at Sint-Lucas in Brussels, and after several years of practice, devoted himself entirely to architectural theory and history. He taught at PHAI in Hasselt, TH Eindhoven, and Ghent University. He has published works on the development of modern architecture in Belgium and the Netherlands, including numerous articles and monographs about Bascourt, Braem, Bontridder, Liebaut, and Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts. Previously friends with Paul Neefs, he shares personal memories of the Turnhout architect in his contribution and illuminates the significance of his work.

Karina Van Herck is a civil engineer architect and master in cultural studies. She was a member of the Urban Planning and Architecture Research Group at KU Leuven (1996-2004) and project leader at the Flemish Architecture Institute (2005-2006). She then worked as an independent editor, writer, and researcher. Since 2009, she has been working at Immovable Heritage, where she currently conducts research on the heritage value of social housing in the 20th century. She is, among others, (co-)editor of Vacant City, of That is Architecture. Key Texts from the 20th Century , of Living in Prosperity. Housing Construction and Living Culture in Flanders, 1948-1973 , of Living in Multiples. Group Housing in Flanders 2000-2010 and of Metamorphoses. A Spatial Biography of the Kortrijk Region . She is co-author of oeuvre catalogs about Isia Isgour and Renaat Braem.

Edith Wouters is an engineer-architect (KU Leuven and Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) and master in construction management (Hogeschool de Naeyer, Mechelen). She also studied at the Henry van de Velde Institute in Antwerp (postgraduate Monument and Landscape Conservation) and at Sint-Lucas College in Brussels (postgraduate urban planning). Since 1997, she has run TEEMA architects together with Paul Vandenbussche. She coordinated the Yearbooks Architecture Flanders from 2001 to 2006, first at deSingel International Arts Center and from 2003 to 2006 at the Flemish Architecture Institute. She was also an editorial board member of the Yearbook Urban Planning and Spatial Planning 2002-2005. She is a board member and part-time artistic coordinator of architecture center Ar-Tur, located in Culture House de Warande in Turnhout.