
Dr. Hielkje Zijlstra MSc PhD (The Netherlands, Leeuwarden, 1962)
1987 graduated: MSc Architecture, Delft University of Technology (TUD).
1987-2001: practicing architect.
2001-2006: PhD in Architectural History & Building Technology (TUD): Building in the Netherlands 1940-1970.
From 2006: Associate Professor for: Heritage & Design _ Faculty of Architecture Leads the research group ‘Heritage & Design’, supervises PhD students and joins the education programme. From 2015: section leader Heritage & Architecture.
Tasks: Docomomo-NL, Expert Committee Urban Development COST, Reviewer European Science Foundation (ESF), member of the board of studies (Faculty of Architecture TUD), guest Professor at the Kyoto University of Technology.
Some research projects: Rietveld’s Universe, Schools in Heritage, Strijp-S, Sloterhof, RGD buildings Delft, Kyoto Design Lab: Culture is in the Details.
Some education projects: Fotress Ellewoutsdijk, Levortofo park Moscow, Rietveld Academy of Art Amsterdam, Hilton Rotterdam, Kyoto Machiya, Lavrion Greece.
My motto: create the opportunities for young people to excel.
Some publications:
-'Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in time – ABCDº research method’, IOS Press & Delft University Press Amsterdam 2009.
-‘Rietveld Originals, handle with care!’, SABE’09 3rd CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Environments, June 2009 Delft.
-'Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in time - ABCD research method. Provincial Library Leeuwarden', in: X. Gu en X. Song (ed.), Structural Analysis of Historic Constructions, Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 133-134,Trans Tech Publications Zürich Switzerland 2010, pp. 283-288.
-‘®MIT Education’, in: The present and future of preservation of Modern Architecture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2012, pp 97-107.
-‘Jeruzalem’s way to eternity’ in: ERIC 2013, Energy Efficient Restoration International Conference, 19 September 2013.
-‘Jeruzalem Amsterdam. Restaureren versus renoveren’, KNOB Bulletin, 1(2013), 34-50.
1987 graduated: MSc Architecture, Delft University of Technology (TUD).
1987-2001: practicing architect.
2001-2006: PhD in Architectural History & Building Technology (TUD): Building in the Netherlands 1940-1970.
From 2006: Associate Professor for: Heritage & Design _ Faculty of Architecture Leads the research group ‘Heritage & Design’, supervises PhD students and joins the education programme. From 2015: section leader Heritage & Architecture.
Tasks: Docomomo-NL, Expert Committee Urban Development COST, Reviewer European Science Foundation (ESF), member of the board of studies (Faculty of Architecture TUD), guest Professor at the Kyoto University of Technology.
Some research projects: Rietveld’s Universe, Schools in Heritage, Strijp-S, Sloterhof, RGD buildings Delft, Kyoto Design Lab: Culture is in the Details.
Some education projects: Fotress Ellewoutsdijk, Levortofo park Moscow, Rietveld Academy of Art Amsterdam, Hilton Rotterdam, Kyoto Machiya, Lavrion Greece.
My motto: create the opportunities for young people to excel.
Some publications:
-'Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in time – ABCDº research method’, IOS Press & Delft University Press Amsterdam 2009.
-‘Rietveld Originals, handle with care!’, SABE’09 3rd CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Environments, June 2009 Delft.
-'Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in time - ABCD research method. Provincial Library Leeuwarden', in: X. Gu en X. Song (ed.), Structural Analysis of Historic Constructions, Advanced Materials Research, Vols. 133-134,Trans Tech Publications Zürich Switzerland 2010, pp. 283-288.
-‘®MIT Education’, in: The present and future of preservation of Modern Architecture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2012, pp 97-107.
-‘Jeruzalem’s way to eternity’ in: ERIC 2013, Energy Efficient Restoration International Conference, 19 September 2013.
-‘Jeruzalem Amsterdam. Restaureren versus renoveren’, KNOB Bulletin, 1(2013), 34-50.
Sessions auxquelles Hielkje Zijlstra participe
11:00
11:00
- 16.00 Heritage and Architecture From a Teacher's and Student's Perspective
- Participant.e Hielkje Zijlstra (Delft University of Technology) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Le patrimoine, et après?
- The education program we teach our students in the Heritage and Architecture Department of the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University o...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Hielkje Zijlstra assiste
12:30
12:30
- Registration UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Main hall
- 12:30 - 17:30 | 5 heures
17:00
17:00
- Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
- Inscription req. Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
- 17:00 - 19:30 | 2 heures 30 minutes
- Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
- Cocktail
19:30
19:30
- The Garden of the Grey Nuns / Le jardin des sœurs grises Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - GN 1210
- 19:30 - 21:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration w...
- Research-Creation
9:00
9:00
- Keynote : What does heritage change? Le patrimoine, ça change quoi? (Lucie K. Morisset)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 9:00 - 10:00 | 1 heure
- What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, s...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

11:00
11:00
- 13.30 Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Central and Eastern European Cities: The Case of Breslau/Wrocław
- Participant.e Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund University, Sweden) |
- 11:00 - 11:30 | 30 minutes Partie de: Le patrimoine, et après?
- This paper will present some results of a newly finished research project that analyzed how the present-day population in a number of Eastern Eu...
- Paper
- Le patrimoine, et après? UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-2508
- 11:00 - 17:00 | 6 heures
- Le 19e siècle aura été celui de l’invention européenne des monuments, historiques et de nature. Le 20e, plus spécifiquement sans sa seconde moitié,...
- Regular session
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
13:30
13:30
- 13.30 Industrial Heritage in Regions of Heavy Industry: Identity Constructions and their Relations to "Layered Temporalities" in Global Comparison
- Participant.e Prof. Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives
- This paper will compare ten regions of heavy industry from North America to Australia and from Japan and China to Europe, in order to find out a...
- Paper
- 14.00 Whose Memories, Whose Heritage? Mining Heritage and the Miners in West-Germany
- Participant.e Dr Stefan Moitra (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM)) |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives
- Industrial heritage has become a most successful concept in the Ruhr and other former German mining regions in recent years. This holds true in ...
- Paper
- 14.30 Please Fill the Gap: Industrial Heritage as a Tool for Dealing with Structural Change?
- Participant.e Jana Golombek |
- 13:30 - 14:00 | 30 minutes Partie de: Industrial Heritage: Towards Comparative Perspectives
- What is the cultural significance of structural change? How have individuals and entire communities reinterpreted the process of deindustrializa...
- Paper
17:00
17:00
- Smoked meat in questions Bistro le Sanguinet - Bistro, étage principal et terrasse
- 17:00 - 18:00 | 1 heure
- This festive event will offer delegates a taste of one of the iconic dishes of Montreal, the smoked meat sandwich, imported by Jewish immigration f...
- Cocktail
18:30
18:30
- Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
- Inscription req. UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
- 18:30 - 20:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
- Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée

12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Ground Floor Hall
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
7:00
7:00
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal
- Inscription req. Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:00 - 9:00 | 2 heures
- Canal: Walking the Post-Industrial Lachine Canal (COHDS, 2013 - bilingual) is an audio-walk and booklet ...
- Tour
7:30
7:30
- Autour de Concordia. Au cœur du Golden Square Mile : explorations de luttes patrimoniales | Around Concordia. In the Heart of Golden Square Mile: Explorations of Heritage Struggles
- Inscription req. Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
- 7:30 - 8:45 | 1 heure 15 minutes
- (en français) Le centre-ville a été au cœur de nombreuses luttes depuis les années 1970. Le parcours proposé par Martin Drouin, historien, pr...
- Tour
12:30
12:30
- Lunchboxes | Boîtes à lunch Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium
- 12:30 - 13:30 | 1 heure
- Repas
15:30
15:30
- Museums and Historical Consciousness: Emergent Themes in Theory and Practice Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.115
- 15:30 - 17:00 | 1 heure 30 minutes
- To date, very little literature explicitly explores the relationships of museums and heritage to historical consciousness, despite the overlappi...
- Roundtable