Albert Bontridder

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Published: Dec 23, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/clara.hs5.0052

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Émile Fredon
Lara Molino

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The architect and poet Albert Marcel Alfons Bontridder (1921 - 2015) talks to two female architecture students in January 2014. He opens with one of his poems: L'impensable (2007).
He discusses his relationship with the French and Dutch languages in architecture and poetry, his formative years, the reasons for his refusal to become a teacher, his relationship with the 'monumental' Jacques Dupuis and later with Claude Strebbelle, and his perception of 'humanity' in architecture. Bontridder also describes his participation in the competition for the van de Ven Prize, the projects for the VUB buildings and the Theoretical Physics building on the Sart-Tilman campus, and his admiration for other Belgian architects such as Léon Stynen, André Jacqmain and Jean Cosse.

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No. 5 (2018): [Special issue] Memories Can't Wait. Conversations between architects and students
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Émile Fredon

Émilie Fredon (Arcachon, France, 1987) graduated in 2016 from the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta (ULB). She started her activity with occasional collaborations with the young Brussels agency Estate Estate (founded by Justine Lemesre and Victor Launay) while continuing her drawing practice in parallel. She is currently working with the Opla agency in Brussels, which questions the logic of reuse in architecture.

Lara Molino

Lara Molino (Brussels, 1990) graduated in 2015 from the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta (ULB) after an exchange at the Università di Roma La Sapienza. In 2014, she assisted the curatorial team of the Belgian pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale "Interiors. Notes and Figures". She was interested in the architecture on display for her final thesis. During her university studies, she led a project workshop with Carlo Menon and co-organised two cycles of conferences within the Ateliers Nocturnes. Today she collaborates with several architectural offices in Brussels and Montreal.