Modern housing: Modernist residential complexes
Geoffrey Grulois with Benoit Moritz (La Cambre Horta - ULB)
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This conference will explore how the typology of apartment blocks designed by Stanislas Jasinski evolved, beginning in the 1930s. It will highlight how well integrated the modern housing built by Jasinski in the south-east of Brussels is while showing his interest in a new modern residential monumentality inspired by American modernism and brutalism.
Benoit Moritz is co-author of Stanislas Jasinski. Parcours d'architectes. He is Professor of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the ULB and a member of the Commission royale des Monuments et des Sites.
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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.
