Something Completely Different: Architecture in Belgium

How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity. Since the foundation of...
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Author: Christophe Van Gerrewey
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Something Completely Different: Architecture in Belgium by Van Gerrewey, Christophe

Something Completely Different: Architecture in Belgium

BD$60.01

Something Completely Different: Architecture in Belgium

BD$60.01
Author: Christophe Van Gerrewey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity.

Since the foundation of the country in 1830, architecture in Belgium has been an expression of the key issues of modern Western societies. In Something Completely Different, Christophe Van Gerrewey uses this small European country as a case study to describe, interpret, and criticize more universal spatial problems and behaviors. In seven wide-ranging essays, he looks at the activities of architects from the past two centuries to better understand political evolutions, social gaps, aesthetic considerations, housing and planning, transport and infrastructure, order and chaos, and culture and ecology. The result is a literary text full of surprises and discoveries, showing both the shortcomings and the merits of what architects do.

Written as a kind of anti-guidebook, Something Completely Different appropriates certain clichés about Belgium (Baudelaire famously called Belgian monuments "counterfeits of France"), eschews the pragmatism of most guidebooks in favor of meditative, essayistic prose, and finally, cunningly, reveals that all along the subject has not been Belgium at all, but rather the nature of architecture.

Author: Christophe Van Gerrewey
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 07/02/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.22w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780262547512

About the Author
Christophe Van Gerrewey is Assistant Professor of Architecture Theory at EPFL Lausanne. He is the editor of OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Reader from Delirious New York to S, M, L, XL and the author of Choosing Architecture and Higher Knowledge: SANAA's Rolex Learning Center at EPFL since 2010.


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