Architectenwoningen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (1830-1970)

Architects’ houses constitute a unique category of housing, embodying a special significance as a calling card, an experimental endeavour, a culmination, or a synthesis of the architect’s body of work, encompassing stylistic, geographical, technical, social, and other features. However, to comprehen...

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Main Authors: Stephanie Van de Voorde, Linsy Raaffels, Barbara Van der Wee, Inge Bertels
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Language:English
Published: Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB 2024-04-01
Series:Brussels Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/brussels/7442
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description Architects’ houses constitute a unique category of housing, embodying a special significance as a calling card, an experimental endeavour, a culmination, or a synthesis of the architect’s body of work, encompassing stylistic, geographical, technical, social, and other features. However, to comprehensively grasp the significance and added value of this architectural genre, a well-defined theoretical and typological framework for understanding architects’ houses is essential. Based on data gathered from existing inventories, literature, archival research and on-site visits, an extensive register in which 370 architects’ houses in the Brussels-Capital Region were mapped forms the starting point of the analysis. Focusing on the period 1830-1970 in which the construction of both architects’ houses and housing in general was increasing, this register includes iconic and well-known architects’ houses as well as less studied cases, in approximately equal proportion: many of which were previously unidentified and can now be properly identified as architects’ houses. Representing the diversity of these houses, the register forms the necessary basis for a thorough assessment of individual cases as well as the architect’s house as a distinct building type.
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spellingShingle Stephanie Van de Voorde
Linsy Raaffels
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Architectenwoningen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (1830-1970)
Brussels Studies
history
housing
heritage
title Architectenwoningen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (1830-1970)
title_full Architectenwoningen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (1830-1970)
title_fullStr Architectenwoningen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (1830-1970)
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title_short Architectenwoningen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (1830-1970)
title_sort architectenwoningen in het brussels hoofdstedelijk gewest 1830 1970
topic history
housing
heritage
url https://journals.openedition.org/brussels/7442
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