May 5, 2018–Jun 10, 2019
To each his own house
Housing in Belgian Congo: 1945 - 1960
As a counterpoint to Jean Prouvé's Maison tropicale, an icon of modern architecture that remains a prototype and is shown at the Kanal Brut exhibit in Kanal - Centre Pompidou, CIVA offers an exhibition made from its own archives, showing the reality of what was built in the Belgian Congo in the post-war years: responses to the housing crisis, technical experiments and adaptation to climate, tropical modernism, metropolitan architecture, and of course, spatial translation of social segregation.
Curator : Johan Lagae