May 5, 2018–Jun 10, 2019

To each his own house

Housing in Belgian Congo: 1945 - 1960
Address
Quai des Péniches, 01000 Bruxelles
Hours
Fri 12 am–24

As a counterpoint to Jean Prouvé's Maison tropicale, an icon of modern architecture that remains a prototype and is shown at the Kanal Brut exhibit in Kanal - Centre Pompidou, CIVA offers an exhibition made from its own archives, showing the reality of what was built in the Belgian Congo in the post-war years: responses to the housing crisis, technical experiments and adaptation to climate, tropical modernism, metropolitan architecture, and of course, spatial translation of social segregation.

Curator : Johan Lagae