Main entry:

Strauven, Iwan, author.

Title & Author:

Victor Bourgeois 1897-1962 : modernity, tradition & neutrality / Iwan Strauven ; with photographs by Maxime Delvaux.

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2021]
Bruges, [Belgium] : Printing ..., Drukkerij die Keure.
©2021

Description:

477 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps (some color), plans (some color), portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
Published in association with CIVA (Brussels) and Architecture Curating Practice (Brussels).--Page 478.
"Shortened, revised and translated version of a PhD thesis that Iwan Strauven defended at Ghent University on 28 May 2015."--Page 478.
"Translation assistance English, Gregory Ball. Translation assistance French, Patrick Lennon."--Page 478.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-470) and index.
(from table of contents) Introduction: In search of Victor Bourgeois -- chapter 1. 'Alright, Ruins then ... Otherwise, Something Modern': Formative Years 1914-1922 -- chapter 2. 'Being Flat Broke is the Salvation of Architecture': The Cité Moderne and the Architecture Debate in Belgium During the 1920s -- chapter 3. 'The Rationalization of Architecture': Victor Bourgeois and the Modern Movement -- chapter 4. 'Urban Planning Adjusts the Space to the Social Progress': Urban Planning Theorization and Practice -- chapter 5. 'A Good Dome is Often a Bad Cupola': Bourgeois' Postwar Work -- chapter 6. 'Inventing the difference': Victor Bourgeois and the Myth of the Belgian Bauhaus: Education at the La Cambre Institute -- Works 1919-1962.

Summary:

Victor Bourgeois (1897-1962) was the leading pioneer of the international Moderne Beweging (modernist movement) in Belgium. He was invited to design a house for the famous Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart in 1927, and between 1928 and 1930 he played an important role in the CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), the most influential platform for modern architecture and urban design of the twentieth century. This book is the first study of Bourgeois' built and textual oeuvre. Despite the refinement of his designs and acuteness of his theoretical insights, he was unjustly forgotten as an architect and urban designer. Architectural historian and curator Iwan Strauven has charted Victor Bourgeois' complete oeuvre, as well as an intellectual biography. This comprehensive monograph is an important contribution to understanding the history of twentieth-century architecture.

ISBN:

9789462084605 hardcover
9462084602 hardcover

Subject:

Bourgeois, Victor, 1897-1962.
Bourgeois, Victor, 1897-1962 Criticism and interpretation.
Architects Belgium Biography.
Modern movement (Architecture) Belgium.
Modern movement (Architecture) Belgium Pictorial works.
Architecture Belgium History 20th century.
Architecture Belgium History Pictorial works.
Architectes Belgique Biographies.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Belgique.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Belgique Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture Belgique Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Belgique Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Architects.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Belgium.

Form/genre:

Biography
Theses.
Biographies.

Added entries:

Delvaux, Maxime, photographer.
Bourgeois, Victor, 1897-1962, architect.
Ball, Gregory, 1953- translator.
Lennon, Patrick (Translator)
Centre international pour la ville, l'architecture et le paysage, issuing body.
Architecture Curating Practice, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309508
Call No.: BIB 254731
Status: Available