Engineering Belgian interwar modernisms. Some examples of architect-engineer-contractor relations

(to be revised)At the end of the interwar period, Belgian architecture critic Pierre Bourgeois (1898–1976) remarked: »Architects and engineers don’t know each other.« The word ›sufficiently‹ should be understood in this phrase, as Bourgeois evaluated the increasing rapprochement between both professions in order to face the new technological challenges in building. By the end of the 1930s, various complex projects as well as discussions in Belgian architects’ and engineers’ journals had put the intensifying collaborations between architects and engineers on the agenda. However, to both profess... Mehr ...