Brussels housing architecture under the microscope

Gérald Ledent and Alessandro Porotto (UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture LOCI+LAB * ) publish the first comprehensive monograph on Brussels housing architecture. It tells the architectural history of Brussels housing through more than 100 exemplary buildings, from semi-detached houses to collective housing. The book launch will take place at Brussels Town Hall Tuesday 28 March at 7pm at the invitation of Urban Planning Alderwoman Ann Persoons. Book excerpt contact: - Gérald Ledent, professor, UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture LOCI +LAB, gerald.ledent@uclouvain.be , mobile on request Do you ever look up at the buildings that make up our cities? Brussels housing architecture is like the city itself : diverse, surprising, and often made up of heterogeneous collages of buildings of different periods and sizes. Thus the residential fabric of Brussels includes both twoand three-storey terraced houses with rear gardens, as well as modernist flat blocks, 19th-century mansions, and brand new complexes. Professor Gérald Ledent and researcher Alessandro Porotto of the UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture LOCI and LAB * in the Brussels commune of Saint-Gilles publish the first exhaustive monograph on Brussels housing architecture. The monograph, which tells the architectural history of Brussels housing, shows why there is such a wide variety of housing in Brussels, ranging from terraced houses to apartment blocks.