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Language: FR
Pages: 144
Format: 150 x 190 mm


Under the supervision of
Pierre Hebbelinck

Publisher
Fourre-tout

Graphic design
NN Studio

Public price
18 €

ISBN
978-2-930525-25-9

Anderlecht — Molenbeek by Pierre Blondel

Anderlecht — Molenbeek by Pierre Blondel
Anderlecht — Molenbeek by Pierre Blondel

The art of Pierre Blondel creates an intermediary space between reality and fiction, a space with an enticing and strange familiarity built through skilfully mastered means that testify to his dual vocation as a writer and architect. His short stories unfold in the neighbourhoods where his future buildings are found, imagined, but not yet built. The reader will be a witness to the architect’s vibrant gaze, which notes the permanent and transitional nature of the city: lives that repeat, but which build the landscape for future generations through the traces they leave behind; the complex desire of individuals to understand their identity through their family background, superimposed on the places and society around them, which are in constant flux; the city itself, which is becoming permanent, without forgetting the past, when the urban environment had not yet lost the ill-defined, green paradise of childhood discovery; the difficult clashes between the suburbs and the city centre, between old residents and new arrivals. All of these themes, which are explored through both media with a sort of detective irony that will surprise the reader, give the familiar feeling of an approaching nostalgia that is specific to life in the city.

Stefan Simion


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