Inventories#0 Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles (2005-2010)

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Publications Language:fr 170x240 mm 96 pages: Public Contracting Authority Prize of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation 2011

The Public Contracting Authority Prize of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation is a biennial award designed to recognise a project backer and a best practice applied within the framework of a public architecture project within the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, that stand out due to the exemplary nature of the process implemented and/or the constancy of the approach adopted by the developer.
Publications Languages: FR/EN 210 x 291 mm 56 pages: Pierre Toby. Cellule architecture.

The Architecture cell of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation is in charge of enforcing the Decree relative to the integration of artworks (IOA) in public buildings (Decree of 10 May 1984).

The IOA collection describes the creative process of artworks and contributes to the visibility of this public policy that supports and promotes contemporary creation.
The first volume is devoted to [...]
Publications Language : FR Pages : 192 Format : 13 x 18 cm: White Paper on the architectural archives in the FWB
The architectural archives are indispensable. They document the discipline; they participate in its understanding, knowledge and recognition, and in the necessary updating of its practices. They define the foundation of a shared architectural culture. Following up the conference “The architectural archives in the French Community: what policy?”, the Livre blanc des archives de [...]
Publications Langague : FR Pages : 103 Format : 245 x 285 cm Under the supervision of la Ville de Mons, Xavier Roland et Camille Brasseur: Mons, 6 museum sites

Within the framework of 2015, Mons, European Capital of Culture, the City will open six new museum sites. It has entrusted the mission of sublimating six emblematic locations from the history of Mons to architects and renowned specialists. The belfry and the neolithic mines at Spiennes, as well as the Doudou (the myth of Saint George and the Dragon) installed in the Mont-de-Piété, [...]
Publications Language: FR 216 pages Under the supervision of Judith le Maire: Clara n°1 - Architecture/Research

The annual CLARA Architecture/Recherche journal is a display window for the work of the researchers at the Centre des Laboratoires Associés pour la Recherche en Architecture (Associated Laboratories Centre for Architectural Research) of the Faculty of Architecture at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, but above all a sharing platform between the Faculty and those who reflect on, write about and build elsewhere."
Publications Language:FR 280 pages 245 x 165 cm Under the supervision of Jean-Didier Bergilez: Dithyrambs. [Re]nouveaux Plaisirs d'Architecture #3
A choral work, a catalogue “supplemented” by the eponymous exhibition, Dithyrambs. [Re]Nouveaux Plaisirs d'Architecture #3 compiles, explores and discusses the production of nine up-and-coming architects working in French-speaking Belgium. Inventive, heteroclite, passionate, militant, these architectural practices are illustrated in the form of documents and notes for an exhibition, interviews, [...]
Publications Language: FR 1344 pages 265 x 330x 60 3,5 kg Under the supervision of Sébastien Charlier: L'Equerre - The complete Edition

Published between 1928 and 1939, along with “Opbouwen”, "L'Equerre" served as a platform for the Belgian and international avant-garde and for the theories developed by the CIAM from 1928 onwards. It showcased the proponents of Belgian and international modernism (V. Bourgeois, LH De Koninck, Le Corbusier ...) and nurtured a special relationship with the Italian architect Alberto Sartoris. In [...]
Publications Languages: EN, FR, NL 21 cm x 21 cm 264 pages 300 illustrations: Brunfaut's progressive architecture
The progressive vision of the architects Fernand, Gaston and Maxime Brunfaut left its mark on the 20th century. The creative output of this visionary trio is emblematic of an era, stimulating our collective imagination and the way we view our cities. Boasting a wide range of different authors, this publication, the first to be dedicated to their work, covers as many as 50 years of [...]
Publications Language: FR 30,5 x 23 cm 336 pages 560 pictures Under the supervision of Maurice Culot: Jean-Jules EGGERICX, Gentleman architect, designer of Garden Cities
Jean-Jules Eggericx (1884-1963) is internationally known. He designed the best known of the garden cities, Floréal and Le Logis. Both are regularly used as the location for movies.
Publications 208 pages 155 x 235 mm Languages: FR - EN - TR Under the supervision of Cédric Libert: (Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known
This publication of WBA's exhibition curated by Cédric Libert is presented during the Biennial of Design at Istanbul Modern from 13th of October to 12th of December 2012. (Un)City – (Un)Real State of the (Un)Known lays down the city as a subject of thought and talk. Addressing through its [...]
Publications language : EN 224 pages: XX Models Young Belgian Architecture
This book presents 20 recent projects by 20 young Belgian architectural firms through 20 architectural models. Offices: - Bureau Vers plus de bien-être (V+), Cinéma Sauvenière à Liège - Julien De Smedt Architects, Mountain & VM dwellings à Copenhague - 360 architecten, Vlerick Leuven Campus à Louvain - architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, Les Ballets C de la B – [...]
Publications Languages : EN-FR-NL 302 pages 21 x 29,7 cm Under the supervision of Nathanaëlle Baës-Cantillon, Joachim Declerck, Michiel Dehaene, Sarah Levy: Changing Cultures of Planning

Changing Cultures of Planning intends to collect and exchange knowledge about recent innovative large-scale urban transformation processes in Europe, by investigating five urban developments.

Throughout Europe, urban planning has evolved from a regulatory practice to a more ‘project-based' transformation of the urban territory. This evolution of [...]
Publications Language : FR 150 pages 150 illustrations: ROBERT PUTTEMANS, an architect who measures up

Like many other architects and artists across all disciplines who belonged to the generation of men and women born around 1900, Robert Putteman's life was inextricably bound up with the terrible upheavals of two world wars, the economic crisis of 1929 and moral and political crises that had no historical precedent. Architectural traditions and their formal symbols were called into question, as [...]
Publications 24 X 30 cm 384 pages quadri Language: FR Under the supervision of Bureau Greisch: Les missions de l'ingénieur
This book, put together in collaboration with the writer Pierre Loze, tells the story of the gradual creation of a team of engineers, architects and draughtsmen around the central figure of René Greisch. It then casts an eye over the major works to see the light of day over the past ten years following the death [...]
Publications French/English 128 pages: Public housing Livig in a rural area
The Public Housing collection raises the question of the architecture of contemporary social housing, which is considered as a space for living and for social emancipation. It exposes projects in Wallonia that have been designed at the service of the most fragile populations at social and economic levels. The approach aims at lifting the veil on the social project that this [...]
Publications Fr - En: Contrats Export. Négocier et bâtir en dix points
This methodological guide is born from the wealth of experiences of the AFEX's members ( French Architects overseas) on international contracts.
From exchanges between architects, engineers and lawyers, it was designed to help architects and other contractors with their contract negotiations with a foreign client. This "toolbox" lists [...]
Publications Format: vertical 17x24 cm Number of pages: 208 Language: English: Belgian Architecture Beyond Belgium

With Belgian Architecture Beyond Belgium, A+Editions provides the first overview of the export of Belgian architecture. The book is aimed at both amateurs as well as architecture and building professionals. A critical synthesis of the history of Belgian architecture on the international stage since the 19th century and the opinions expressed during a round-table discussion by key figures [...]
Publications 257 pages: Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS, Records of Design and Realisations

The Chinese book, "Philippe SAMYN and PARTNERS, architects & engineers, Records of Design and Realisations", has been launched. The selected projects depict the whole development since the office set up. It also illustrates all the architecture processes with sketches, drawings, pictures of construction sites and finished buildings.
Publications 464 p Under the supervision of Cédric Libert, Commissaire général d’Espèces d’architecte: Espèces d'architecte

Espèces d'architecte illustrates the extraordinary vitality of architectural culture in Wallonia and in Brussels over the length of a season in Paris between November 2008 and July 2009. Inspired by a monographic exhibition by the Atelier d'Architecture Pierre Hebbelinck et Pierre de Wit (Méthodologie du sensible) and at the invitation of the French-speaking [...]
Publications 414 pages: L.-J. Baucher J.-P.Blondel O. Filippone

The intersecting careers of three architects who graduated from Brussels' Ecole de la Cambre around 1950 capture the prevalent atmosphere and challenges of the age, along with its architectural practices and a generation's thirst for modernity.

The book, realised by Manuela Dechamps Otamendi, received an award at the Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs 2011.
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Publications Languages : FR-EN Pages: 175 Under the supervision of Pierre Hebbelinck: Annotated Catalogue of the Architexto Project
The Catalogue Raisonné du projet Architexto (Annotated Catalogue of the Architexto Project) will be presented on the occasion of the opening night of the exhibition on 19 January. This work retraces the history of this cross-disciplinary cultural project, acting as an accompaniment to its launch as a stand-alone and travelling exhibition.

Richard Scoffier wrote the back cover: [...]
Publications Languages EN - FR - NL Format 30 cm / 24 cm 288 pages: Belgium New Architecture

Belgium New Architecture is the fifth edition in a series of books that take an closer look at some realisations choosen by Prisme Editions in contemporary architecture.

By way of an introduction, author Pierre Loze pays hommage to architect Joël Claisse, who was the originator of this collection.

Architect Nicolas Gilsoul brings up the following [...]
Publications 224 pages in black and white 110*170 mm format: Pierre Blondel - L.M.S. and other news

Editions Fourre-Tout is devoting its twentieth book publication to a collaboration with Brussels-based architect Pierre Blondel, who one day, whilst he was drawing his designs, decided to start writing fiction in which the characters had adventures in and around these nascent premises. The essays collected in these pages are the fruit of chance occurrences, passions, calling things into [...]
Publications Format 250 x 250 Language FR 240 pages: Architectures New talents

A reference book on young and talented Walloon and Brussels architects published by Editions Racine.

This book showcases over 135 projects – homes, renovations, redevelopments, apartments, lofts, offices, hotels and restaurants – by 28 architectural design agencies.
Through their expressive qualities and the vision on offer, these designs are set to [...]
Publications 184 pages Color illustrationsand BW 148 x 210 mm French/English Under the supervision of Denis Gielen: Jean-François Pirson. Pédagogies de l’espace - Workshops

The architecture cell of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation is launching a new ‘Fenêtre sur’ collection dedicated to disciplines related to architecture.

An artist and teacher, honorary professor at the Higher Institute of Architecture Lambert Lombard (Liege), Jean François Pirson expresses his relationship with space through an array of artistic and educational [...]
Publications 272 pages, color illustrations 240 mm x 318 mm french/english Under the supervision of Maurizio Cohen & Chantal Dassonville: Inventories#0 Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles (2005-2010)

This publication gives an overview of the current architecture situation in Wallonia and Brussels, and comes five years after the publication of the Livre blanc de l’architecture en Communauté française de Belgique – Qui a peur de l’architecture ? (White Paper on Architecture in the French Community of Belgium – Who’s Afraid of Architecture?).

The publication includes:
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