Brussels housing : atlas of residential building types / Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto ; foreword by Jacques Lucan ; photography by Maxime Delvaux.

Main entry:

Ledent, Gérald, author.

Title & Author:

Brussels housing : atlas of residential building types / Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto ; foreword by Jacques Lucan ; photography by Maxime Delvaux.

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2023]
©2023

Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 34 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Brussels housing: a typology -- A city of row houses: from the origins to 1914 -- Brussels cityscapes I -- Housing atlas I -- Perpetuating or opposing the terraced house -- Brussels cityscapes II -- Housing atlas II -- The search for quality housing: from 2000 onwards -- Brussels cityscapes III -- Housing atlas III.

Summary:

Modern urban terraced houses or row houses emerged in Europe from the 17th century onwards. Usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back, they formed the traditional urban block. In Brussels, this bourgeois form of housing took on a particularly varied and inspiring form - including the well-known Art Nouveau residences - and forms the DNA of the city to this day. This publication analyses 100 selected examples illustrating the emergence of the terraced house and its further development in other forms of housing. The result is a broad panorama and a history of the architecture and development of the city of Brussels with its particularly heterogenous cityscape.

ISBN:

3035625506 hardcover
9783035625509 hardcover

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Belgium Brussels History.
Terrace houses Belgium Brussels History.
Dwellings Belgium Brussels History.
Maisons en terrasses Belgique Bruxelles Histoire.
Habitations Belgique Bruxelles Histoire.
Terrace houses
Architecture, Domestic
Buildings
Dwellings
Brussels (Belgium) Buildings, structures, etc.
Bruxelles (Belgique) Constructions.
Belgium Brussels

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Porotto, Alessandro, author.
Lucan, Jacques, writer of foreword.
Delvaux, Maxime, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318011
Call No.: 318011
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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