Publications

Publications
Languages: FR - EN
Pages: 456
Format: 21.6 x 29


Publisher
Accattone

SIMPLE ARCHITECTURE:

VILLA BAIZEAU IN CARTHAGE BY LE CORBUSIER AND JEANNERET

Roberto Gargiani, éd.
2024

The social, economic, constructional, environmental and climatic issues that, at the start of the twenty-first century, have called into question the foundations of the architectural project make up the theoretical background to the book devoted to the villa that Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret built in Carthage for Lucien Baizeau, Blanche
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Publications
Language: FR
Pages: 232
Format: 17 x 24 cm


Under the supervision of
Caroline Mierop Jean-Pierre Hoa

Publisher
Prisme Editions

SIMONE GUILLISSEN-HOA, ARCHITECTE 1916 1996

This is the first monograph devoted to Simone Guillissen-Hoa.
Caroline Mieropy recounts the extraordinary life of this Eurasian woman, activist, resistance fighter, deportee, single mother and self-employed entrepreneur.
In the book, Caroline Mierop recounts the extraordinary personal and professional life of Simone Guillissen-Hoa: her friends and her loves, her doubts and her advances, her
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Publications
Pages: 192
Format: 23 x 28,5 cm


Publisher
Fonds Mercator

The Academia Belgica in Rome

This book is the first publication on the building of the Academia Belgica in Rome, a residence for Belgian researchers and artists and a centre for scientific and cultural activities. Constructed between 1937 and 1939 by the Italian Gino Cipriani and the Belgian Jean Hendrickx-Van den Bosch, in a style both modernist and Art Deco, the building has maintained not only its original exterior but [...]
Publications
Pages: 400
Format: 11,5 x 18,5


Under the supervision of
Sophie Dars, Thierry Decuypere, Paul Mouchet

Publisher
Sophie Dars, Félix Antoine Meilleur Roy

The Solar Club

The Solar Club (or what the sun does to architecture) is an iconographic survey conducted by teachers and students of the CUMA studio at La Cambre Horta during 2023.
Publications
Languages : EN
Pages : 208
Format : 24 x 30 cm, soft cover


Under the supervision of
Maxime Delvaux

Publisher
Accattone

CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD, DILMUN BURIAL MOUNDS,

JOŽE PLEČNIK, R?O TINTO, VICTOR HORTA

The story of this book was built over time, through the many exchanges that took place between a photographer, the editors, graphic designers and authors.

Maxime Delvaux is best known for his commissioned photographs of contemporary buildings by architects such as Christian Kerez, Herzog & de Meuron, Bruther, Muoto, Baukunst and 51N4E. As a photographer, he also
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Publications
Languages : FR, EN
Pages : 64
Format : 29,7 x 42 cm, black and white, unstapled


Publisher
Sophie Dars, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele

ÉCOLES TROUBLES

Penser, e?diter, spatialiser la controverse

Texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatialized by Accattone together with the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles. A project by Accattone on the initiative of ‘Construire les mondes des coexistences’ (Djamel Klouche, Gaëtan Brunet, Raphaëlle Hondelatte, Jean-Patrice Calori, Magali Paris / ÉNSA Versailles)Contributors: Pierre [...]
Publications
Languages : FR, EN
Pages : 320
Format : 105 x 180 mm


Under the supervision of
Bento & Vinciane Despret

Publisher
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Cellule architecture

IN vivo - Living in Mycelium

With Living in Mycelium, Vinciane Despret, Christine Aventin and Juliette Salme launch us into a future in which man has finally reconnected with living materials.
The historic starting point for this new era, which the artists refer to as ‘mycélocène’, is ‘In Vivo’, the proposal by the architects from Bento (Florian Mahieu, Corentin Dalon and Charles Palliez) and their
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Publications
Language : FR, EN
Pages : 224
Format : 200 x 260 mm

Illustration : Aurélie William Levaux


Under the supervision of
Audrey Contesse

Publisher
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Cellule architecture

Wallonia-Brussels Architecture Inventories # 4 2020-2023

The spectre of climate change and its social, economic and ecological implications is haunting the Planet. The energy issue, the drought, the floods and other climatic disasters confront us with the challenges of governance and more specifically, with the lack of political interest in architecture and land planning. In order to try to change the course of this situation, any spatial [...]
Publications
Language: EN
Pages: 256
Format: paperback, stapled

Publishers: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König (Cologne) A+ Architecture in Belgium Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts


Under the supervision of
Lisa De Visscher, Lara Molino, Iwan Strauven

AGWA: Twenty-three Projects 2006-2022

AgwA is a Brussels-based architecture practice founded in 2003. Twenty-three projects are presented through various documents that explore AgwA’s process of thinking and building architecture. Together with two essays and an interview with the architects, this accumulation of drawings, sketches, scale models, plans and photographs illuminates the current condition of Belgian architecture – its [...]
Publications
Language: FR
Pages: 228
Format: 190 x 270 mm

Authors: Jean-Didier Bergilez, Pierre Chabard, Sébastien Charlier, Audrey Contesse, Guy Duplat, Aurélien Jacob, Gery Leloutre, Charlotte Lheureux, Benoît Moritz, Anne Norman, Christophe, Van Gerrewey, Cécile Vandernoot, Jean-Paul Verleyen


Under the supervision of
Audrey Contesse

Publisher
FWB - Cellule architecture / Institut Culturel d'Architecture Wallonie-Bruxelles

What living somewhere means

What living somewhere means is a sensitive narrative that looks back over a three-year journey exploring French-speaking Belgium and meeting its residents. During this exploration and by using culture as a lever, the Cultural Institute of Architecture Wallonia-Brussels asked the following question to all its audiences: “What does living somewhere mean to you?” Although the responses [...]
Publications
Language : EN
Pages : 352

Photographs: Maxime Delvaux
500 illustrations – 200 coloured illustrations

Foreword: Jacques Lucan


Under the supervision of
Gérald Ledent & Alessandro Porotto.

Publisher
Birkhäuser

Brussels Housing.

Atlas of Residential Building Types

Comprehensive monograph on urban housing architecture in BrusselsBrussels housing is extreme diverse as anyone walking around the city will notice. Its traditional urban block consists of terraced houses, usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back. Here, this bourgeois housing type evolved into a particularly varied and inspiring form – including the well-known Art Nouveau [...]
Publications


Publisher
Cellule architecture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Machine Opérationnelle

Edition of the catalog Prix de la Maîtrise d’Ouvrage Publique (Prix MOP).
The MOP Prize is an award initiated in 2011 and coordinated by the Cellule Architecture of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Its objective is to highlight the role of public sponsors in the context of architectural and landscape projects.
For this 2020 edition, the projects honored are: the rural multiservice house
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Publications


Under the supervision of
Aude-Line Dulière, Juliet Haysom et James Westcott

Essay: Digestion

We invite you to discover the essay entitled Digestion written by Aude-Line Dulière, Juliet Haysom and James Westcott as a continuation of the Placeholders project, presented in 2021 at the V&A in London, an exhibition on the theme of the circular economy linked to the reuse of building materials, and more broadly to sustainable development. An opportunity to practice the circular [...]
Publications
Language: FR
Pages: 144
Format: 150 x 190 mm


Under the supervision of
Pierre Hebbelinck

Publisher
Fourre-tout

Anderlecht — Molenbeek by Pierre Blondel

The art of Pierre Blondel creates an intermediary space between reality and fiction, a space with an enticing and strange familiarity built through skilfully mastered means that testify to his dual vocation as a writer and architect. His short stories unfold in the neighbourhoods where his future buildings are found, imagined, but not yet built. The reader will be a witness to the [...]
Publications
Languages : FR
Pages : 288
Format : 17 x 24 cm


Publisher
Jean-Michel Place

Le véritable enjeu de l’histoire est la contemporanéité.

Professor emeritus at Ensa Nancy and researcher at the Laboratoire d'histoire de l'architecture contemporaine (LHAC), Joseph Abram is celebrating his 70th birthday this year. For the occasion, and under the direction of Ana Bela de Araujo, Émeline Curien, Pierre Maurer and Karine Thilleul, some sixty texts have been collected in a tribute book recently published by Jean-Michel [...]
Publications
Languages : FR
Pages : 168
Format : 23×27 cm


Under the supervision of
Bernard Quirot

Publisher
Building Books

Pesmes - Art de construire et engagement territorial

The book is based on the architecture seminar organised by Avenir Radieux and directed by Bernard Quirot in Pesmes since 2015, where students, architects including Pierre Hebbelinck, critics and invited historians experiment with the project as a tool for knowledge and transformation of the territory, and where exchanges, debates and critical and prospective views are [...]
Publications
Languages : FR-DE
Pages : 496
Format : 17 x 24 cm


Under the supervision of
Thomas Moor - Norbert Nelles - Emeline Curien

Publisher
Cellule architecture

Guides to Modern and Contemporary Architecture, 6

Verviers, Spa, East Belgium, Pays de Herve & Ambl?ve Valley 1868 -2022

This sixth guide to modern and contemporary architecture dedicated to Verviers, Spa, Amblève Valley, Pays de Herve & Amblève Valley encourages to look at architecture differently through a selection of 479 projects located on maps, commented by 115 authors and illustrated by more than one thousand photographs and six hundred plans. These projects are the result of modernity revisited in [...]
Publications
Languages: FR-EN
Pages: 192
Format: 20 x 26 cm


Publisher
PRISME EDITIONS

Past to Future

La Grande Carriere Wincqz

The book documents the reconversion and restoration project of the Great Wincqz Quarry in Soignies, Belgium. A site built in the 19th century for the excavation of the famous Belgian blue stone, today dedicated to an ambitious project: the Stone Pole.
The book approaches the transformation of the site in three essays:
- a photographic essay that explores the interior and exterior spaces and
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Publications
Language: FR
Pages: 141
Format: 19 x 25,5 cm

FIG #7 TECHNOSPHÈR

Dedicated to the notion of technosphere, the seventh issue of fig. reflects on the thirst for domination that human beings have for their natural and social environment and that continues to define this early 21st century. This collective discussion between researchers, architects, artists, filmmakers and activists aims both to situate their disciplinary fields within this global overflow and [...]
Publications
Languages: EN
Format : Soft cover, 368 pages


Under the supervision of
Giovanna Borasi

Publisher
Spector Books

A Section of Now:

Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention

Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications and seeks to catalyze urban [...]
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