Brussels housing : atlas of residential building types.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledent, Gérald.

Contributor:

Porotto, Alessandro.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

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.

Städtische Reihenhäuser – town houses – entstanden in Europa ab dem 17. Jahrhundert. Im Regelfall zwei- bis dreigeschossig und mit einem Garten auf der Rückseite ausgestattet, bildeten sie den städtischen Block. In Brüssel hat diese bürgerliche Wohnform eine besonders vielgestaltige und bis heute inspirierende Ausformung erfahren. Diese Publikation analysiert 100 ausgewählte Beispiele dieser Typologie, zeigt aber auch ihre Weiterentwicklung in anderen Formen des Wohnungsbaus. So entstehen ein breit angelegtes Panorama sowie eine Architektur- und Entstehungsgeschichte der Stadt Brüssel.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

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

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Index

Illustration Credits.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Ledent, Gérald Brussels Housing

ISBN:

9783035625530

3035625530

OCLC:

1371432124