By Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto & Kristiaan Borret

Modern urban terraced houses or row houses emerged in Europe from the 17th century onwards. Usually two to three storeys high and with a garden at the back, they formed the traditional urban block. In Brussels, this bourgeois type of housing took on a particularly varied and inspiring form – including the well-known Art Nouveau residences – which composes the DNA of the city to this day. Brussels Housing: Atlas of Residential Building Types analyses 121 selected examples illustrating the emergence of the terraced house and its further development in other forms of housing. The result is a broad panorama and a history of the architecture and development of the city of Brussels with its particularly heterogenous cityscape.

This expanded second edition comprises a new chapter by Kristiaan Borret, the city’s former “bouwmeester”. Thirteen new case studies were added and the content was updated. A project index facilitates quick navigation. With four photo essays by the well-known Belgian photographer Maxime Delvaux.