Isabelle Doucet
Isabelle Doucet – Aesthetics between Provocation and Production: Counter-Projects In Brussels of the mid 1970s ‘counter-projects’ produced by students of La Cambre became a tool of resistance that resonated with the activism of the Atelier de Recherche et d’Action Urbaines (ARAU) and the Archives d’Architecture Moderne (AAM). These drawing manifestoes simultaneously criticised existing proposals for urban development and offered alternatives. Isabelle Doucet revisits the less-known ‘first’ generation of counter-projects and illuminates how these architectural ‘reactions’, while similar in method and aim, can differed greatly as projective gestures. They functioned as testgrounds for aesthetic articulation as much as for political provocation.
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