De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s

In the decades following the second world war, the Belgian cities of Brussels and Liège, which didn’t suffer from any large-scale destruction during the conflict, are subjected to modernistic urban policies leading to the disappearance of whole sections of their traditional urban fabric. Helped...

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spelling oai:ojs3.editorialrestauro.com.mx:article-2702021-02-18T23:19:26Z De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s Claudine Houbart, Ph. D. relocated buildings urban renovation ARTICLE relocated buildings urban renovation ARTICULO In the decades following the second world war, the Belgian cities of Brussels and Liège, which didn’t suffer from any large-scale destruction during the conflict, are subjected to modernistic urban policies leading to the disappearance of whole sections of their traditional urban fabric. Helped by private agencies, cities’ administrations develop ambitious plans aiming to update their built environment and road system, in order to answer the needs of motorised traffic and modern lifestyle. This paper focuses on a practice developed in parallel to this prevailing tendency: under the direction of the city architects Jean Rombaux (Brussels) and Jean Francotte (Liège), some fragments of ancient buildings to be demolished are carefully dismantled and stored, with the aim of being reassembled in order to recreate fragments of idealised traditional townscapes. Through the examples of the Lombard-Violette and Saint-Georges blocks, respectively in the city centres of Brussels and Liège, this paper addresses the reasons behind the operations and the successive projects, and discusses the status of the results. In the decades following the second world war, the Belgian cities of Brussels and Liège, which didn’t suffer from any large-scale destruction during the conflict, are subjected to modernistic urban policies leading to the disappearance of whole sections of their traditional urban fabric. Helped by private agencies, cities’ administrations develop ambitious plans aiming to update their built environment and road system, in order to answer the needs of motorised traffic and modern lifestyle. This paper focuses on a practice developed in parallel to this prevailing tendency: under the direction of the city architects Jean Rombaux (Brussels) and Jean Francotte (Liège), some fragments of ancient buildings to be demolished are carefully dismantled and stored, with the aim of being reassembled in order to recreate fragments of idealised traditional townscapes. Through the examples of the Lombard-Violette and Saint-Georges blocks, respectively in the city centres of Brussels and Liège, this paper addresses the reasons behind the operations and the successive projects, and discusses the status of the results. Restauro Compás y Canto S.A. 2021-02-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículos evaluados por pares application/pdf https://editorialrestauro.com.mx/gremium/index.php/gremium/article/view/270 Revista Gremium; Vol. 6 No. 11 (2019): Reconstrucciones; 46-61 Revista Gremium; Vol. 6 Núm. 11 (2019): Reconstrucciones; 46-61 2007-8773 spa https://editorialrestauro.com.mx/gremium/index.php/gremium/article/view/270/280 https://editorialrestauro.com.mx/gremium/index.php/gremium/article/view/270/281 Derechos de autor 2021 Ph. D. Claudine Houbart https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s
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title De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s
title_short De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s
title_full De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s
title_fullStr De(con)struction / (re)construction : urban scenography in Belgium in the 1960’s
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description In the decades following the second world war, the Belgian cities of Brussels and Liège, which didn’t suffer from any large-scale destruction during the conflict, are subjected to modernistic urban policies leading to the disappearance of whole sections of their traditional urban fabric. Helped by private agencies, cities’ administrations develop ambitious plans aiming to update their built environment and road system, in order to answer the needs of motorised traffic and modern lifestyle. This paper focuses on a practice developed in parallel to this prevailing tendency: under the direction of the city architects Jean Rombaux (Brussels) and Jean Francotte (Liège), some fragments of ancient buildings to be demolished are carefully dismantled and stored, with the aim of being reassembled in order to recreate fragments of idealised traditional townscapes. Through the examples of the Lombard-Violette and Saint-Georges blocks, respectively in the city centres of Brussels and Liège, this paper addresses the reasons behind the operations and the successive projects, and discusses the status of the results.
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