The landscapes of Belgian reconstruction: a balance between modernity and tradition

After World War I, the debate on Belgian reconstruction divided the architects. Some claimed that the priority should be the reconstruction of monuments and urban historical centres, others considered the construction of housing more urgent. In the first half of the Twenties, on one hand, the well-established generation of old architects worked at the reconstruction of devastated regions, on the other hand, the young “modernist” generation experimented with the construction of garden suburbs with low-cost housing. The urban planner and landscaper Louis van der Swaelmen and the modernist archit... Mehr ...