From 1937 to 1952, the young architects from Liège that formed Group L’Equerre and served as the secretariat of the Belgian section of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) initiated a reflection about the development of the Liège industrial agglomeration and its population centers. What sources did they mobilize to build a reflexive and multi-scalar approach to urban planning from the regional scale to that of the inhabited neigbourhood? The discovery of the original drawings of the survey of the Liège Region (1948-1952) and plans for a neighborhood unit on the plateau of Trixhes (1937-1952) in two archives—Archives of the city of Liège and the archives of architecture of ULB—allow us to explore an emerging practice of r...
During the first World War, the dramatic destruction of Belgian cities encouraged intellectuals to q...
After the Second World War, the social and economic organisation of Belgium was reformed in accordan...
This introductory text presents the overarching question that informs the articles in this special s...
From 1937 to 1952, the young architects from Liège that formed Group L’Equerre and served as the sec...
What makes urban projects urban and what does it take to urbanise deliberately? This is a highly per...
This paper focusses on the production of the two major commercial residential developers, Jean-Flori...
The Liege area is a pilot region as far as town and country planning in Belgium is concerned. Furthe...
The object of this article is to measure the recent evolution of the urban space in Belgium, to show...
In the Low Countries, most of cities have been established during the Middle Ages, while the density...
What makes urban projects urban and what does it take to urbanise deliberately? This is a highly per...
This paper examines how transactional spaces between architects, policy-makers and a rising scene of...
What makes urban projects urban and what does it take to urbanise deliberately? This is a highly per...
This paper examines how transactional spaces between architects, policy-makers and a rising scene of...
Similar to other compact European cities, Brussels has to manage on one hand the phenomenological pr...
What tendencies emerge from the dwellings produced in the first twenty years of the life of Brussels...
During the first World War, the dramatic destruction of Belgian cities encouraged intellectuals to q...
After the Second World War, the social and economic organisation of Belgium was reformed in accordan...
This introductory text presents the overarching question that informs the articles in this special s...
From 1937 to 1952, the young architects from Liège that formed Group L’Equerre and served as the sec...
What makes urban projects urban and what does it take to urbanise deliberately? This is a highly per...
This paper focusses on the production of the two major commercial residential developers, Jean-Flori...
The Liege area is a pilot region as far as town and country planning in Belgium is concerned. Furthe...
The object of this article is to measure the recent evolution of the urban space in Belgium, to show...
In the Low Countries, most of cities have been established during the Middle Ages, while the density...
What makes urban projects urban and what does it take to urbanise deliberately? This is a highly per...
This paper examines how transactional spaces between architects, policy-makers and a rising scene of...
What makes urban projects urban and what does it take to urbanise deliberately? This is a highly per...
This paper examines how transactional spaces between architects, policy-makers and a rising scene of...
Similar to other compact European cities, Brussels has to manage on one hand the phenomenological pr...
What tendencies emerge from the dwellings produced in the first twenty years of the life of Brussels...
During the first World War, the dramatic destruction of Belgian cities encouraged intellectuals to q...
After the Second World War, the social and economic organisation of Belgium was reformed in accordan...
This introductory text presents the overarching question that informs the articles in this special s...