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Horta and the grammar of Art Nouveau
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ISBN: 9789462303607 9462303606 Year: 2023 Publisher: Brussels : Mercatorfonds : Bozar Books,

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Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau offers an innovative in-depth analysis of the architectural approach of Victor Horta, the Belgian architect whose creations between 1893 and 1905 were seminal for the development of Art Nouveau architecture. This book, edited by Iwan Strauven (Professor Architectural History, ULB) and Benjamin Zurstrassen (Director of the Horta Museum in Brussels), assembles new research by national and international experts on the work of Victor Horta, offering new perspectives on Art Nouveau architecture. The first part of the book sheds a new light on the toolbox of Victor Horta. Focusing on the architectural sources of one specific work, the Tassel house, it gives an insight in where and how Victor Horta conceived of his designs. The second part discusses some fundamental themes of Victor Horta’s architecture, such as the rhetorical use of structure, the innovative use of materials and the use of light in the development of the dynamic plan. It also gives a detailed account of the place of Victor Horta in Sigfried Giedions historiography of the modern movement and more specifically in his seminal work Space Time Architecture. A third part of the publication explores the relation between Victor Horta’s invention of Art Nouveau and the colonial enterprise of King Leopold II. This chapter unveils recently rediscovered archival material on Victor Horta’s project for the Congo Free State pavilion at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. Horta et la Grammaire de l’Art Nouveau propose un aperçu innovant de l’approche architecturale de Victor Horta (1861–1947), dont les créations entre 1893 et 1905 ont été déterminantes pour le développement de l’architecture Art Nouveau. Cet ouvrage présente l’oeuvre, le contexte et la boîte à outils du plus célèbre des architectes belges dans une perspective nouvelle, dégageant ce qui reste essentiel à l’Art Nouveau de Victor Horta, en dehors de son style et de son vocabulaire typiquement végétal. Des experts internationaux jettent un éclairage nouveau sur les sources architecturales d'Horta, la manière dont il a conçu ses projets et son usage novateur de la structure et de la lumière. Le livre évoque également la réception d’Horta dans l’historiographie du Mouvement moderne et la relation entre son œuvre et l’entreprise coloniale du Roi Léopold II. Cette publication est abondamment illustrée de cartes, plans, modèles en plâtre et matériel photographique exceptionnel et inédit, commandé par Victor Horta lui-même. Ces sources archivistiques sont complétées par une série de photographies, réalisées spécialement pour cet ouvrage par le photographe d’architecture Maxime Delvaux. Elles offrent une vue contemporaine des bâtiments d’Horta sous l’angle des différents thèmes abordés au fil des pages. Victor Horta en de grammatica van de art nouveau biedt een vernieuwende en grondige analyse van de architecturale aanpak van Victor Horta, de Belgische architect wiens creaties tussen 1893 en 1905 baanbrekend waren voor de architectuur van de art nouveau. In dit boek, onder redactie van Iwan Strauven (professor architectuurgeschiedenis, ULB) en Benjamin Zurstrassen (directeur van het Hortamuseum in Brussel), is nieuw onderzoek samengebracht van nationale en internationale experts in het werk van Victor Horta.


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Exploring NU Architectuuratelier
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ISBN: 9783753305127 375330512X Year: 2023 Publisher: Köln: Walther König ,

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Based in Ghent, NU architectuuratelier is an organization for architecture and design research whose mission is to develop spatial projects in collaboration with professionals from different fields. By approaching the design process empathically, NU aims to make a qualitative contribution to both the social and spatial environment. Its work has manifested itself in all areas of everyday life, and has included care facilities, renovated historic churches, offices, residential complexes and more. NU’s most recent collaboration has been with the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, comprising an interactive playspace where the public is invited to interact with furniture and domestic designs amid a landscape filled with flowers, cacti and other natural elements. Its first monographic publication shows some of the firm’s main realizations through plans, drawings and photographs by Belgian photographer Stijn Bollaert.

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