Contact info
Position Research team and university: Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine (CReA-Patrimoine) de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Position: Historian and Archeologist, post-doctoral researcher
Address: 50 avenue Franklin Roosevelt 1050 Brussels, CP133-01
E-mail: pcharrua@ulb.ac.be
Research interest
Medieval and post-medieval archaeology, building and urban history in the Southern Low Countries, building materials, building materials supply, building materials production, construction techniques, urban regulations in the field of construction
Current and past research projects in the field of Construction History
2015-2016: coordinator of the international network ‘Urban dynamics and construction in the cities and towns of the medieval West’, involving the Université de Paris 1, the University of Braga (Portugal), the Institut national universitaire Champollion d’Albi and the Université libre de Bruxelles ; project funded by the Partenariat Hubert Currien (Pessoa and Tournesol).
2013-: associated researcher with the project ‘Typological and dendrochronological inventory of ancient wooden frameworks in the Brussels capital region’ (Monument and Sites Directorate/Brussels Regional Public Service, University of Liège, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Université libre de Bruxelles).
2012-2015: post-doctoral researcher of the F.R.S.-FNRS at the CReA-Patrimoine of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and at the Centre Européen d’Archéométrie of the Université de Liège (ULg): ‘Wood supplying and construction methods in the cities of the Southern Netherlands (Middle Ages-Modern Period). Case study: Brussels’.
2009-2011: post-doctoral researcher at the CREA-Patrimoine of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Representative publications in the field of Construction History
P. Charruadas, S. Demeter, ‘Regional building archaeology. The stakes involved in the improved management of historic architecture in Brussels’ Brussels Studies 52, 3 octobre 2011, Publication online: http://www.brusselsstudies.be/medias/publications/BruS52EN.pdf
P. Charruadas, P. Sosnowska, ‘Petrification’ of Brussels architecture. An attempted explanation between construction methods, supply of building materials and social changes (13th-17th centuries)’, in: W. Börner, S. Uhlirz (eds) 17th Vienna Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies: Urban archaeology and Excavations (Vienne, 5-7 nov. 2012), Vienne, Museen der Stadt Wien – Stadtarchäologie, 2013, Publication online: http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/?page_id=5326
P. Charruadas, P. Sosnowska, ‘Petit béguinage et architecture vernaculaire. Étude archéologique d’un pan-de-bois du xve siècle conservé dans l’actuel musée du Béguinage à Anderlecht’, Revue belge d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, 82, 2013, pp. 5-44.
P. Charruadas, M. Layeux, ‘La chapelle Sainte-Anne à Auderghem et le chanoine Lemaire. Mise au point sur une église "romane" et sa restauration (1915-1917)’, in: F. Chantinne, P. Charruadas, P. Sosnowska (eds.) Trulla et cartæ. Culture matérielle, patrimoine et sources écrites. Liber discipulorum et amicorum in honorem Michel de Waha, Bruxelles : Le Livre Timperman, 2014, pp. 387-432.
P. Charruadas, C. Deligne, ‘Cities hiding the Forests. Wood Supply, Hinterlands, and Urban Agency in the Southern Low Countries, 14th-18th centuries’, in: D. Schott, M. Toyka-Seid, T. Soens and B. De Munck éds.), Urbanizing Nature. Actors and Agency in the History of City/Nature Relationships, Londres: Routledge, accepted for publication
