Brussels Architecture, From 1950 to the present day. - Maurice Culot,
KORTE INHOUD
"The some 400 projects presented are placed in the context of their age and their significance: repairing the damage caused by the route taken by the North-South railway junction and the impoverishment of the city centre, Expo '58 and the primacy awarded to the motorcar, the phenomenon of bruxellisation, May '68 and urban protest, the oil crises and birth of the metro, the effects of regionalization, urban renewal and the growing strength of environmental demands"--Back cover.
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This book, views 60 years of architecture in Brussels against the backdrop of changes in society. The selection of more than 400 buildings covers a period from the severe monumental works of the immediate post-war period to those freed of all dogmatism created by the latest generation of architects. Through words and images, the reader is able to follow the development of a capital confronted by a violent phenomenon of destruction during peacetime (bruxellisation) before, under pressure from civil society, ...
