Renovation

CIVA, KU Leuven and BMA put the transformation of social housing built in the XXth century on the agenda. In the coming months, a series of three debates with clients, architects and other actors from the field will tackle the challenges linked to renovation: changing buildings, changing contexts, changing tempo.

Maintaining modern architecture and the values it embodied is no easy task in Brussels. Modernism has left a lasting impression here, ending its formal aspects to a violent transformation of the city that has been referred to since the end of the 1960s as ‘Brussellisation’¹. Throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century, the focus was on ‘repairing’ the ‘damaged’ parts of the capital.

In the article S'ouvrir aux autres (*Opening Up to Others), written by architect and author Cécile Vandernoot, A+ magazine features the renovation project of the Monty, a former cinema that has been home to the TOF Théâtre company for the past twenty years

The 20th century was marked by major upheavals on historical, cultural, and technical fronts. Architecture from this period stands out for its diverse styles and construction techniques, which, driven by the rapid evolution of architectural theories, were sometimes experimental and innovative. Often poorly understood and difficult to restore or renovate, this architecture sometimes leads urban planners to opt for overly drastic transformations of this heritage, which is as significant as any other.

Launch of a beautiful book on the diversity of housing architecture in Brussels, featuring a presentation of the Tilleul project.