Architects Journeys #2: Antoine Pompe - Eric Hennaut
(Eng.ed)
KORTE INHOUD
This volume devoted to Antoine Pompe (1873-1980) rediscovers the work and original struggles of a figure who was both central to and independent of the birth of modernist architecture in Belgium. On the eve of the First World War, his first independent project, Dr Van Neck's clinic in Saint-Gilles (1910), stood out as one of the most innovative Belgian buildings of its time. For fifteen years, he participated in and set the standard for most of the avant-garde architectural movements, particularly the Belgian garden city movement. A reputed technician, concerned with an economical practice with sober and rational forms, he nevertheless refused to renounce the emotional and sensual dimension of buildings and distanced himself from the exclusively purist orientation taken by the modern movement. He went on to develop his own highly demanding 'architecture of reason and feeling', which was rediscovered in the late 1960s by a generation questioning the foundations and limits of modernity. Most of his work, mai...
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2024Uitgever: Mercatorfonds144 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 240x170ISBN-10: 946230386XISBN-13: 9789462303867Koop dit boek tweedehands
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This volume devoted to Antoine Pompe (1873-1980) rediscovers the work and original struggles of a figure who was both central to and independent of the birth of modernist architecture in Belgium. A reputed technician, concerned with an economical practice with sober and rational forms, he nevertheless refused to renounce the emotional and sensual dimension of buildings and distanced himself from the exclusively purist orientation taken by the modern movement.
Paperback,240 x 170 mm, 150 Illustrations col.il...
Paperback,240 x 170 mm, 150 Illustrations col.il...
