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Published: Jun 1, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3917/clara.002.0013

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Victor Brunfaut
Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta - Université libre de Bruxelles
Graziella Vella
Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta - Université libre de Bruxelles
Bertrand Terlinden
Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta - Université libre de Bruxelles

Abstract

In this first thematic dossier, students and teachers from a workshop at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta, assisted by researchers from the ULB, take us on a journey of discovery of Brussels' mosques. Through fieldwork, surveys and projects, they visit the architecture of Muslim places of worship, questioning the place of Islam in the public space and the capacity of the urban and social fabric of Brussels to accommodate new uses.

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No. 2 (2014): Brussels mosque as a project
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Thematic section
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Victor Brunfaut, Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta - Université libre de Bruxelles

Victor Brunfaut (Tunis, 1967) is an architect (ISACF La Cambre, 1991) and has a doctorate in urban planning (Universities of Pescara and Roma-La Sapienza, Italy, 2003). He is developing a research activity on architecture and urban planning issues in the countries of the South (Maghreb, Africa). He has worked as an independent architect since 1995 and in the Karbon' office since 2007. He has been teaching architecture and urban planning at the La Cambre Institute of Architecture since 2003, now the La Cambre-Horta Faculty of Architecture of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is affiliated with the HABITER research centre (ADP - Architecture, Development, Heritage) and, together with Graziella Vella and Bertrand Terlinden, is in charge of the Faculty's Terrains d'architecture project workshop.

Graziella Vella, Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta - Université libre de Bruxelles

Graziella Vella is developing an "anthropology of the near" that questions the evidence of our models (State, city, knowledge, etc.) and the way in which they are constituted, circulate and define what differs from them. She was inspired in particular by the work of F. Deligny. She teaches at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta of the Université libre de Bruxelles where she experiments with new forms of association and sharing of expertise that are the source of invention and not of levelling. She is a member of GECO (Group of Constructivist Studies, ULB).

Bertrand Terlinden, Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta - Université libre de Bruxelles

Bertrand Terlinden (1965) is a doctor of architecture (IUA -Venice, 1996), practitioner and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta of the Université libre de Bruxelles. His research interests cover landscape, territory, sedimentation, town-country relations, the history of construction in Europe and architectural typology. He also conducts research and teaching projects in Morocco and the Democratic Republic of Congo. His writings, documents, projects and works in progress or completed can be consulted on his blog: www.betrandterlindenarchitecture.wordpress.com.

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