Article (Scientific journals)
De(con)struction-(re)construction: urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960's
Houbart, Claudine
2019In Gremium, 6 (11), p. 46-61
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
 

Files


Full Text
195-669-1-PB.pdf
Publisher postprint (1.49 MB)
Download

All documents in ORBi are protected by a user license.

Send to



Details



Keywords :
reconstruction; façadism; urban scenography
Abstract :
[en] In the decades following the second world war, the Belgian cities of Brussels and Liège, which didn’t suffer from any large-scale destruction during the conflict, are subjected to modernistic urban policies leading to the disappearance of whole sections of their traditional urban fabric. Helped by private agencies, cities’ administrations develop ambitious plans aiming to update their built environment and road system, in order to answer the needs of motorised traffic and modern lifestyle. This paper focuses on a practice developed in parallel to this prevailing tendency: under the direction of the city architects Jean Rombaux (Brussels) and Jean Francotte (Liège), some fragments of ancient buildings to be demolished are carefully dismantled and stored, with the aim of being reassembled in order to recreate fragments of idealised traditional townscapes. Through the examples of the Lombard-Violette and Saint-Georges blocks, respectively in the city centres of Brussels and Liège, this paper addresses the reasons behind the operations and the successive projects, and discusses the status of the results.
Research center :
AAP - Art, Archéologie et Patrimoine - ULiège
Disciplines :
Art & art history
Architecture
Author, co-author :
Houbart, Claudine  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'Architecture > Architecture Site Outremeuse
Language :
English
Title :
De(con)struction-(re)construction: urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960's
Publication date :
2019
Journal title :
Gremium
eISSN :
2007-8773
Publisher :
Editorialrestauro, Mexico, Mexico
Special issue title :
Reconstrucciones
Volume :
6
Issue :
11
Pages :
46-61
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Available on ORBi :
since 17 January 2019

Statistics


Number of views
185 (22 by ULiège)
Number of downloads
110 (8 by ULiège)

Bibliography


Similar publications



Contact ORBi