Xavier Delory
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Work from Formes urbaines.
“Urban Forms: the aim of this project (in progress) is to study the recurrent characteristic of modern cities, with Brussels as first field of research. This work will comprise several chapters:
‘Bare d’ilot’ (a reflection on the urban block, the framework of the historic city, it break-up and its replacement by residential and office towers), ‘Dom-ino’ (this name is a wink at Le Corbusiers’ concept, Critic of a functional and profitable architecture, symbol of vanity and gragili-ty). ‘Façade libre’ (a reflection on façadism, the ‘Disneyland’ city” – Xavier Delory