Antoine Pompe: Architectenparcours Brussel / Architect’s Journeys Brussels 2
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Eric Hennaut, Maurizio Cohen, Véronique Boone, Benoît Moritz (Eds)
docomo & Mercatorfonds, 2024
€34,95
Architectenparcours is a series of monographic guides on the work of architects who left their mark on the urban landscape of Brussels after the First World War. The collection focuses on the work of architects who are less well-known to the general public, but who deserve all the more recognition because of their intimate relationship with the city. Each part highlights a unique journey, both literally and figuratively, and reveals not only the built heritage, but also the underexposed and little-studied facets of the urban history of the capital. The first part documented the work of architect Stanislas Jasinski.
This second part of the series is dedicated to Antoine Pompe (1873–1980) and brings the original achievements and ideas of this architect back into the spotlight. He was a central and independent figure in the emergence of modern architecture in Belgium. One of his first projects, the clinic of Dr Van Neck in Saint-Gilles (1910), was one of the most innovative buildings of its time. For fifteen years he was a champion of the avant-garde, especially with regard to the concept of the garden city. Although he was committed to an economic approach based on sober, rational forms, he refused to give up the emotional dimension and distanced himself from the purist direction of the modern movement. He therefore strove alone to develop an ‘architecture of reason and feeling’. PLEASE SPECIFY IF YOU WANT THE ENGLISH VERSION!
ISBN: 9789462303850
