Vacant city : Brussels' Mont des Arts reconsidered /
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Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Item Description: | Exchange. |
Carrier Form: | 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
905662167X : 9789056621674 |
Index Number: | NA9210 |
CLC: | TU984.564 |
Call Number: | TU984.564/V112 |
Contents: |
Fragmented Panorama -- Westbury Tower / Telex building / Sabena Air Terminus / Shell building / Gare Centrale / Galerie Ravenstein / Palais des Beaux-Arts / Old England / Bibliotheque Royale / Palais de la Dynastie / In the Shadow of the Palace -- Metamorphoses of an area between two fires / Modernity versus Identity: Leopold II and Charles Buls / A Belgian labyrinth: Victor Horta and the Mont des Arts / Carrefour de l'Europe / "Invisible" Museum of Modern Art: the peak of modesty? / Architectural Archives Disclosed State of the Arts -- Mont des Arts as terrain vague? / Counter-arrangement / City without excitement / How public are the temples of culture on the Mont des Arts? / Art and culture on the Mont des Arts: a descent and an ascent / Museum and City: Elements of Reflection -- Mont des Arts as a ruin in the revanchist city / Mont des Arts: between museum and city / Mont des Arts, Brussels 2000 and the Fondation Roi Baudouin / Laboratory for the City of Tomorrow -- Mont des Arts: one nation under ground / De-masking the Mont des Arts / Sleight of hand, signal or manipulation? / Old knowledge, nothing new / Agent provocateur / Cet obscur objet du desir / A proposal for a significant and dynamic cultural collage / Mont des Arts as theoretical spectacle / Brussels as it might have been / Food for thought. Ideas for the Mont des Arts / |