11/19/2022 0 Comments A francotte liege belgium![]() ![]() 79), at the expense of the human scale of its centre and the preservation of its heritage. Since a few decades, the capital of Belgium has been the symbol of “a haphazard urban development and redevelopment” (State, 2015, p. Keywords: relocated buildings, authenticity, urban renovation, façadism Through the examples of the Lombard- Violette and Saint-Georges blocks, respectively in the city centres of Brussels and Liège, this paper addresses the reasons behind the operations and the successive projects, and discusses the status of the results. This paper focuses on a practice developed in parallel to this prevailing tendency: under the direction of the city architects Jean Rombaux (Brussels) and Jean Francotte (Liège), some fragments of ancient buildings to be demolished are carefully dismantled and stored, with the aim of being reassembled in order to recreate fragments of idealised traditional townscapes. Helped by private agencies, cities’ administrations develop ambitious plans aiming to update their built environment and road system, in order to answer the needs of motorised traffic and modern lifestyle. In the decades following the second world war, the Belgian cities of Brussels and Liège, which didn’t suffer from any large-scale destruction during the conflict, are subjected to modernistic urban policies leading to the disappearance of whole sections of their traditional urban fabric. Her main research topics are history of conservation and urban renovation in the 20th century as well as conservation theory and philosophy. ![]() (Documentation, Interpretation, Valorisation of Architecture, Design and heritage). She is a professor at the Faculty of architecture of the University of Liège (Belgium) and a member of the research unit AAP (Art, Archèologie, Patrimoine), DIVA laboratory Is architect and art historian, has a master in conservation of monuments and sites and a PhD in engineering science. ![]()
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