Something Completely Different

Architecture in Belgium

Christophe van Gerrewey

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MIT Press
06 August 2024

Architecture

How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity.

How architecture in Belgium, from its very beginnings, has epitomized modernity and singularity.

Since the foundation of the country in 1830, architecture in Belgium has been an expression of the key issues of modern Western societies. In Something Completely Different, Christophe Van Gerrewey uses this small European country as a case study to describe, interpret, and criticize more universal spatial problems and behaviors. In seven wide-ranging essays, he looks at the activities of architects from the past two centuries to better understand political evolutions, social gaps, aesthetic considerations, housing and planning, transport and infrastructure, order and chaos, and culture and ecology. The result is a literary text full of surprises and discoveries, showing both the shortcomings and the merits of what architects do.

Written as a kind of anti-guidebook, Something Completely Different appropriates certain cliches about Belgium (Baudelaire famously called Belgian monuments ""counterfeits of France""), eschews the pragmatism of most guidebooks in favor of meditative, essayistic prose, and finally, cunningly, reveals that all along the subject has not been Belgium at all, but rather the nature of architecture.

By: Christophe van Gerrewey
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 159mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262547512
ISBN 10: 0262547511
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 06 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christophe Van Gerrewey is Assistant Professor of Architecture Theory at EPFL Lausanne. He is the editor of OMA/Rem Koolhaas- A Critical Reader from Delirious New York to S,M,L,XL and the author of Choosing Architecture and Higher Knowledge- SANAA's Rolex Learning Center at EPFL since 2010.

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Something Completely Different

Architecture in Belgium

Christophe van Gerrewey

$95

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