Brussels Housing: Atlas of Residential Building Types. Second and expanded edition

About Alessandro PorottoGérald LedentKristiaan Borret

Gérald Ledent is an architecture professor at UCLouvain in Brussels where he teaches theory as well as in various studios. His PhD thesis Potentiels Relationnels explores the relations in dwelling between spaces and uses illustrated by an atlas of more than 10000 housing units in Brussels. Ledent plays a coordination role in the Uses&Spaces research team in which his interests focus on the relationship in architecture between uses and spaces housing typo-morphologies and research by design. Recently Ledent co-edited Sustainable Dwelling (Brussels PUL PU Louvain 2019) a book that examines the social and spatial dimensions of housing from a sustainability perspective. He is also the author of Institutions & the City: The Role of Architecture (Zürich Park Books 2022) which explores the role of architecture in establishing and perpetuating social structures and ideologies. Ledent has extensive experience as a practitioner in the fields of public buildings and collective housing developments in Belgium and abroad. He is the co-founder of the architectural practice KIS studio (Keep It Simple studio) which aims to avoid unnecessary complexity in order to focus on the essentials. Alessandro Porotto is a postdoctoral researcher in the Uses&Spaces research group at UCLouvain Brussels and in the Architecture and the City research group at Delft University of Technology Netherlands. His research interests focus on the typological and historical evolution as well as new forms of urban housing and urban blocks in various cities. He is an architect who graduated from Politecnico di Torino Italy (2012) and holds a PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland (2018) with a dissertation investigating the interwar housing typologies in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main. He was a visiting researcher at the Art History Department of Emory University USA to study the architectural design of public-housing initiatives in Atlanta (2020). Alongside peer-reviewed articles and contributions to international conferences he is the author of the publication Lintelligence des formes: Le projet de logements collectifs à Vienne et Francfort (Geneva MétisPresses 2019).