Tom Packet

Tom Packet studied art history and archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His Master’s thesis on the Belgian architect Victor Horta’s stay in the United States during WWI was awarded the De Bock-Doehaerd Prize (2019) for best historical research and the Stimulation Prize of the Royal Netherlands Society of Architectural History (2021). He is author of the book Horta in Amerika: het verblijf van Victor Horta in de Verenigde Staten van 1915 tot 1919 (ASP Publishers, 2021). 

He is currently a visiting scholar in art history at Wesleyan University (Connecticut), where he is finishing his PhD on Belgian-American architectural exchange from the 1890s to late 1930s, supervised by prof. Pieter Martens and prof. Werner Adriaenssens (FWO, 2020-2024).