Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types

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Modern urban terraced houses or row houses emerged in Europe from the 17th century onwards. Usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back, they formed the traditional urban block. In Brussels, this bourgeois form of housing took on a particularly varied and inspiring form – including the well-known Art Nouveau residences – and forms the DNA of the city to this day. This publication analyses 100 selected examples illustrating the emergence of the terraced house and its further development in other forms of housing. The result is a broad panorama and a history of the architecture and development of the city of Brussels with its particularly heterogenous cityscape.

With a photo essay by the well-known Belgian photographer Maxime Delvaux
All plans have been drawn in standard scales especially for the publication
An atlas of exemplary historical and contemporary housing typologies

Foreword (Jacques Lucan)

Introduction/ Brussels Housing: A Typology (Gérald Ledent and Alessandro Porotto)

1/ A City of Row Houses: From the Origins to 1914 (Gérald Ledent)

2/ Perpetuating or Opposing the Terraced House (Gérald Ledent)

3/ The Search for Quality Housing: From 2000 Onwards (Alessandro Porotto)

• ISBN

  9783035625509

• Title

  Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types

• Author

  Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Maxime Delvaux, Jacques Lucan

• Publisher

  Birkhäuser

• Publication year

  2023

• Binding

  Hardcover

• Language

  English

Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types

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