Urban planning of boulevards and avenues
Yaron Pesztat met Gery Leloutre (La Cambre Horta - ULB)
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Jasinski's Ville du futur (City of the Future), 1926 and Centre administratif (Administrative Centre), 1930 projects were developed as part of an overarching initiative redefining Brussels' main traffic routes. This conference will seek to identify how such planning of urban thoroughfares was implemented in the 1950s and 1960s, using the transformation of Avenue Churchill as an example.
Gery Leloutre is the author of a doctoral thesis on the modus operandi of Brussels' modernisation and co-curated (re)compose the city — Unbuilt Brussels #2, an exhibition at CIVA focusing on the city’s North-South Connection.
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CIVA and the La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture will present three conferences in the context of the exhibition “Jasinski and the Modernization of Brussels”. The series aims to explore certain concepts and typologies highlighted in the exhibition and their relation to the modernisation of Brussels.
Each conference will be conducted as a dialogue between a guest speaker specializing in urban planning in Brussels and the exhibition curators, Geoffrey Grulois and Yaron Pesztat. They will be joined by curator Ursula Wieser-Benedetti, whose focus lies in landscape architecture. The curators will speak for around 15 minutes, providing context for each theme and linking it to the exhibition, after which the guest speaker will present a 45-minute talk.
Participants are invited to visit the exhibition in the company of the curators at 6.30 pm. Groups are limited to 15 people, with compulsory registration.
