Title & Author:

Vacant city : Brussels' Mont des Arts reconsidered / [edited by Bruno de Meulder, Karina Van Herck].

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, ©2000.

Description:

375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
I. Fragmented Panorama -- Westbury Tower / Bruno De Meulder 16 -- Telex building / Ronny De Meyer 18 -- Sabena Air Terminus / Maurizio Cohen 21 -- Shell building / Jo Braeken 22 -- Gare Centrale / Eric de Kuyper 25 -- Galerie Ravenstein / Dieter De Clercq 26 -- Palais des Beaux-Arts / Karina Van Herck 29 -- Old England / Virginie Jortay 30 -- Bibliotheque Royale / David Vanderburgh 33 -- Palais de la Dynastie / Koen Van Synghel 34 -- II. In the Shadow of the Palace -- Metamorphoses of an area between two fires / Bruno De Meulder, Nancy Meijsmans, Karina Van Herck, Ilke Verhoeven 40 -- Modernity versus Identity: Leopold II and Charles Buls / Karina Van Herck, Bruno De Meulder 58 -- A Belgian labyrinth: Victor Horta and the Mont des Arts / Bruno De Meulder, Karina Van Herck 72 -- Carrefour de l'Europe / Bruno De Meulder 84 -- "Invisible" Museum of Modern Art: the peak of modesty? / Johan Lagae 100 -- III. Architectural Archives Disclosed 107 -- IV. State of the Arts -- Mont des Arts as terrain vague? / Dieter De Clercq 190 -- Counter-arrangement / Tom Avermaete 216 -- City without excitement / Kristiaan Borret 228 -- How public are the temples of culture on the Mont des Arts? / Koen Van Synghel 234 -- Art and culture on the Mont des Arts: a descent and an ascent / Koen Brams, Dirk Pultau 246 -- V. Museum and City: Elements of Reflection -- Mont des Arts as a ruin in the revanchist city / Erik Swyngedouw 267 -- Mont des Arts: between museum and city / Karina Van Herck, Hilde Heynen 282 -- Mont des Arts, Brussels 2000 and the Fondation Roi Baudouin / Marie-Laure Roggemans 292 -- VI. Laboratory for the City of Tomorrow -- Mont des Arts: one nation under ground / Max. 1 & Crimson 298 -- De-masking the Mont des Arts / Design + Urbanism 306 -- Sleight of hand, signal or manipulation? / Hilton Judin 314 -- Old knowledge, nothing new / Bart Verschaffel 322 -- Agent provocateur / Atelier Seraji 328 -- Cet obscur objet du desir / Joao Luis Carrilho da Graca 336 -- A proposal for a significant and dynamic cultural collage / Catherine David 344 -- Mont des Arts as theoretical spectacle / Isabelle Graw 352 -- Brussels as it might have been / Riken Yamamoto, Field shop 360 -- Food for thought. Ideas for the Mont des Arts / Paul Vermeulen 368.

Summary:

"Vacant City shuttles between the issue of vacant structures in today's cities, the role of culture in urban planning, and the changing significance of the museum. It also inaugurates an innovative planning process which submits to the cultural event Brussels 2000, European City of Culture, a research programme on city development models. It offers a fascinating insight into the particular problems and history of Brussels' Mont des Arts as urban site." "The research methods used in the project are urban analysis and urban history, architectural theory and cultural philosophy, but above all design and programming. Internationally renowned architects like Atelier Seraji, Joao Luis Carrilho Da Graca, Design + Urbanism, Max. 1 and Crimson, and Riken Yamamoto and Field Shop, and cultural critics and philosophers such as Catherine David, Isabelle Graw, Hilton Judin, and Bart Verschaffel produced at the behest of Brussels 2000 spatial as well as development concepts for the Mont des Arts, which are extensively documented and analysed in this publication. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

905662167X
9789056621674

Subject:

Kulturhauptstadt Europas.
City planning Belgium Brussels.
Urban renewal Belgium Brussels.
Rénovation urbaine Belgique Bruxelles.
City planning.
Urban renewal.
Architektur
Städtebau
Stedenbouw.
Stadskernen.
Stadsplanning.
Architecture Belgium Brussels 20th century
Mont des Arts (Brussels, Belgium)
Belgium Brussels.
Belgium Brussels Mont des Arts.
Brüssel
Brussels (Belgium) Buildings, structures, etc.

Added entries:

Meulder, Bruno de, 1960-
Herck, Karina van.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215956
Call No.: NA1170 .V3 2000
Status: Available