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Gérald Ledent
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Gérald Ledent is an architecture professor at UCLouvain in Brussels, where he teaches theory as well as in various studios. His PhD thesis, Potentiels Relationnels, explores the relations in dwelling between spaces and uses illustrated by an atlas of more than 10 000 housing units in Brussels. Ledent plays a coordination role in the Uses&Spaces research team, in which his interests focus on the relationship in architecture between uses and spaces, housing typo-morphologies and research by design. His latest publications include Sustainable Dwelling (PUL, 2019), a book that examines the social and spatial dimensions of housing from a sustainability perspective ; Institutions & the City: The Role of Architecture (Park Books, 2022) that explores the role of architecture in establishing and perpetuating social structures and ideologies ; and Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building types (Birkäuser, 2023). Ledent also has an extensive experience as a practioner in the fields of public buildings and collective housing developments in Belgium and abroad. He is the co-founder of KIS studio (Keep It Simple studio), which aims to avoid unnecessary complexity in order to focus on the essentials.
- Diplômes
Année Label Institution 1998 Candidat ingénieur civil architecte Université catholique de Louvain 2001 Ingénieur civil architecte Université catholique de Louvain 2014 Docteur en sciences de l'ingénieur Université catholique de Louvain
2023
Ledent, Gérald. Brussels Housing. In: Lieux dits, , no.23, p. 28-31 (2023). doi:10.14428/ld.vi23.76843.
2022
Courbebaisse, Audrey ; Ledent, Gérald. From an imagined community to genuine communities: Birth and development of Etrimo Apartment Buildings in Brussels, 1950–2020. In: Cidades - Comunidades e Territorios, Vol. 1, no.2, p. 52-73 (2022).
2022
Degavre, Elodie ; Ledent, Gérald (co-first author). Life in Kit Form Mass Customization in Playful Housing Experiments (Belgium, 1968–1983). In: studies in History and Theory of Architecture, Vol. 9 (2022).
2022
Ledent, Gérald. The Double Role of Architecture: The Critical and Therapeutic Potency of Unbuilt Utopias. In: Utopian Studies, Vol. 33, no.2, p. 317-340 (2022). doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.33.2.0317.
2021
Ledent, Gérald ; Salembier, Chloé. Co-Housing to Ease and Share Household Chores? Spatial Visibility and Collective Deliberation as Levers for Gender Equality. In: Buildings, Vol. 11, no. 189 (2021) (2021). doi:10.3390/buildings11050189.
2021
Porotto, Alessandro ; Ledent, Gérald. Crisis and Transition: Forms of Collective Housing in Brussels. In: Buildings, Vol. 11, no. 4, p. 1-33 (2021). doi:10.3390/buildings11040162.
2021
Ledent, Gérald ; Salembier, Chloé. Parents en co-habitat. Vers une parentalité élargie ?. In: EchoGéo, (2021). doi:10.4000/echogeo.21095.
2021
Porotto, Alessandro ; Ledent, Gérald. Referential housing type for the 21st century city: new typo-morphological strategies in Brussels. In: ISUF 2020 Virtual Conference Proceedings, p. 1-10 (2021). doi:10.26051/0D-C0N0-4A31.
2021
Ledent, Gérald. Size Matters. How does the number of dwellings affect housing co‑production?. In: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 1-19 (2021). doi:10.1007/s10901-021-09863-8.
2021
Lampariello, Beatrice ; Ledent, Gérald ; Cavalieri, Chiara. Super-Studio. Post Covid Architectural Visions. In: Traces, , no.2, p. 5 (2021).
2019
Ledent, Gérald. From Ideal Proposals to Serial Developments. Victor Bourgeois’s Schemes in the Light of Post-War Developments in Brussels. In: Urban Planning, Vol. 4. Housing Builds Cities, no.3 (2019). doi:10.17645/up.v4i3.2115.
2019
Niemann, Sebastian ; Ledent, Gérald. L’habitat au Bassin Minier. Evolution et avenir du territoire et de ses typologies. In: Les cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère, Vol. 7 (Soumis).
2019
Niemann, Sebastian ; Ledent, Gérald. Overlying territories — Mapping the mining settlements in Northern France. In: Urban Planning, Vol. 5, no. 2 (Soumis).
2019
Ledent, Gérald ; Komossa, Susanne. Referential Types as Clues for Housing Design. In: Urban Morphology, Vol. 23, no. 2 (2019).
2017
Ledent, Gérald. Introversion et extraversion de l’espace public commercial bruxellois. In: A+, Vol. Dis-Count, p. 39-44 (2017).
2014
Ledent, Gérald. Tours de logement : Grandeur, décadence… renaissance?. In: A+, Vol. Tours de logement, no. 247, p. 55-62 (2014).
2023
Ledent, Gérald ; Porotto, Alessandro. Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser, Birkhäuser: Basel, 2023. 978-3-0356-2550-9. 352 p.
2022
Ledent, Gérald ; Vandernoot, Cécile. Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture, Park Books: Zurich, 2022. 978-3-03860-293-4. 224 p.
2019
Sustainable Dwelling. Between Spatial Polyvalence and Residents' Empowerment, éd. Ledent, Gérald ; Salembier, Chloé ; Vanneste, Damien, Presses Universitaires de Louvain. Louvain-la-Neuve, 2019. 978-2-87558-914-9. 208 p (Accepté/Sous presse).
2023
Ledent, Gérald. A City of Row Houses: From the Origins to 1914. In: Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser: Basel, 2023, p. 14-29. 978-3-0356-2550-9. doi:10.1515/9783035625530-003.
2023
Ledent, Gérald ; Porotto, Alessandro. Brussels Housing: A Typology. In: Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser: Basel, 2023, p. 8-13. 978-3-0356-2550-9. doi:10.1515/9783035625530-002.
2023
Ledent, Gérald. Perpetuating or Opposing the Terraced House. In: Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser: Basel, 2023, p. 98-113. 978-3-0356-2550-9. doi:10.1515/9783035625530-006.
2022
Ledent, Gérald. Alternative Housing for a Diverse and Inclusive Society. In: Heckmann, Oliver, Future Urban Habitation : Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptions, and Designs, Oliver Heckmann, 2022. 9781119734857. doi:10.1002/9781119734895.ch11.
2022
Ledent, Gérald ; Vandernoot, Cécile. An Institutional Shift. The End of Monuments and Monofunctionality?. In: Gérald Ledent, Cécile Vandernoot, Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture, Park Books: Zurich, 2022, p. 192-209. 978-3-03860-293-4.
2022
Ledent, Gérald ; Vandernoot, Cécile. Brussels & Its Institutions. Between the Lower Town and the Upper Town. In: Gérald Ledent, Cécile Vandernoot, Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture, Park Books: Zurich, 2022, p. 60-81. 978-3-03860-293-4.
2022
Ledent, Gérald ; Vandernoot, Cécile. Institutions and the City. Preface. In: Gérald Ledent, Cécile Vandernoot, Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture, Park Books: Zurich, 2022, p. 8-19. 978-3-03860-293-4.
2022
Ledent, Gérald ; Vandernoot, Cécile. The Entwined Histories of Brussels Institutions. In: Gérald Ledent, Cécile Vandernoot, Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture, Park Books: Zurich, 2022, p. 106-177. 978-3-03860-293-4.
2020
Rosa, Elisabetta cinzia ; Salembier, Chloé ; Ledent, Gérald ; Laki, Giulietta ; Houlstan, Rafaella ; Donnen, Alexandre. The Right(s) to the Brussels city-centre and urban project. Moving Margins ? Le(s) droit(s) au centre-ville de Bruxelles et le projet urbain. Déplacement des marges ?. In: BSI-Brussels Centre Observatory (BSI-BCO), Towards the Metropolitan City Centre of Brussels, Editions de l’ULB et VUBPRESS: Bruxelles, 2020, 81-111. 978-2-87558-914-9.
2019
Ledent, Gérald. Decomposition – Composition: The Neapolitan Palazzo. In: Fontaine Christine, Valente Renata, D’Ambrosio Valeria, Naples LAB. Research & tentative design, Presses Universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2019, 108-121. 978-2-87558-850-0.
2019
Ledent, Gérald ; Salembier, Chloé ; Vanneste, Damien. Dwelling past the Limits of Housing. Housing facing the Individualization of Society, the Cases of Kalbreite and La Sécherie. In: Ledent Gérald, Salembier Chloé, Vanneste Damien, Sustainable Dwelling. Between Polyvalence and Empowerment, Presses Universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2019, 49-75. 978-2-87558-914-9.
2019
Ledent, Gérald ; Salembier, Chloé ; Vanneste, Damien. Sustainable Dwelling. In: Ledent Gérald, Salembier Chloé, Vanneste Damien, Sustainable Dwelling. Between Spatial Polyvalence and Residents' Empowerment, Presses Universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2019, 7-21. 978-2-87558-914-9.
2018
Ternon, Anna ; Ledent, Gérald. Learning from Self-Produced Housing Experiences in Brussels. In: Cairns, Graham and Day, Kirsten, Dimensions in Housing: Approaches in Design and Theory from Europe to the Pacific Rim (Housing the Future) (Housing – Critical Futures), Libri Publishing: London, 2018, p. 55-68. 9781911451051.
2018
Ledent, Gérald. The standardization of housing. From heroism to flat pragmatism. In: Benoît Burquel, Thaïs de Roquemaurel, Martin Dumon, Guillaume Joachim, Real Estate Architecture. The apartment building, Real Estate Architecture: Bruxelles, 2018, p. 98-112. 9782960197709.
2018
Fontaine, Christine ; Chanvillard, Cécile ; Ledent, Gérald. Un enseignement tiré de l’architecture en tant que production culturelle. In: Disegno. Maîtrise et incertitude : les dessins de l'architecture, 2018, p. XX. 978-2-87558-916-3.
2017
Ledent, Gérald. Addressing Permanence. Housing polyvalence in the work of contemporary architects. In: Graham Cairns, Kirsten Day, Christakis Chatzichristou, Housing Solutions through Design, Libri Publishing: London, 2017, p. 75-86. 9781911451020.
2017
Ledent, Gérald. Genèse de la maison bruxelloise. In: Priscilla Ananian, Bernard Declève, Montréal et Bruxelles en projet, Regards croisés sur la densification et le projet urbain, Presses Universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2017, p. 127-156. 9782875585486.
2023
Ledent, Gérald ; Salembier, Chloé. Home Sharing in Brussels. Understanding Citizen-run Forms of Home-Sharing through the Analysis of an activist list: Berta. ENHR Conference : Urban regeneration – shines and shadows (Lodz, Pologne, du 28/06/2023 au 30/06/2023).
2022
Ledent, Gérald. Alternative housing. European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) conference 2022. “The Struggle for the “Right to Housing” (Barcelona, du 30/08/2022 au 03/09/2022).
2022
Ledent, Gérald. Do Community Land Trust Principles Modify the Architecture of Housing? The Case of the CLTB. European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) conference 2022. “The Struggle for the “Right to Housing” (Barcelona, du 30/08/2022 au 03/09/2022).
2021
Courbebaisse, Audrey ; Ledent, Gérald. The imagined community of Etrimo. Birth and development of owner-occupied apartment buildings in Brussels. Optimistic Suburbia. Middle-Class Mass Housing Complexes (Lisbon, du 16/06/2021 au 18/06/2021).
2020
Porotto, Alessandro ; Ledent, Gérald. Housing Facing Transitions: Domestic Spaces and Uses Build Brussels. 17th AHRA International Conference – Housing and the City (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, du 19/11/2020 au 21/11/2020).
2020
Porotto, Alessandro ; Ledent, Gérald. Referential Housing Type for the 21st Century City: New Typo-morphological Strategies in Brussels. XXVII Conference of the International Seminar on Urban Form – ISUF 2020 The 21st Century City (University Of Utah, Salt Lake City, US, du 01/09/2020 au 04/09/2020).
2019
Niemann, Sebastian ; Ledent, Gérald. Constitution, evolution and future of the architectural typologies of mining habitat in Northern France. ATUT Architecture and City as a Home, EAHN Conference (Tampere, du 03/10/2019 au 04/10/2019).
2019
Niemann, Sebastian ; Ledent, Gérald. Housing - Work - Territory, spatial and social structures of agricultural and mining settlements in Northern France. Housing for the next European social model, ENHR Conference (Athens, du 27/08/2019 au 30/08/2019).
2019
Chiara Monterumisi ; Alessandro Porotto ; Ledent, Gérald. Mapping the Existenzminimum: Modern European Dwellings. ReHab - Housing Strategies (Politecnico di Torino, du 06/12/2019 au 07/12/2019).
2019
Ledent, Gérald ; Salembier, Chloé. Rethinking domestic workload in collaborative housing. A Means to Emancipate Inhabitants?. Housing for the next European social model, ENHR Conference (Athènes, du 27/08/2019 au 30/08/2019).
2018
Niemann, Sebastian ; Ledent, Gérald. Atlas of the mining habitat, volume 1: Northern France, From Building to Continent: How Architecture Makes Territories. From Building to Continent: How Architecture makes Territories, Centre for Research in European Architecture (University of Kent, Canterbury).
2018
Ledent, Gérald ; De Visscher, Jean-Philippe. Différences entre «recherche par le projet» et «étude»: le cas de la revitalisation du quartier européen de Bruxelles. In: Recherche & projet : productions spécifiques et apports croisés, 2018. 9782905865335, 144-148.
2018
Ledent, Gérald. Orthopaedic Space. Utopias: Can Architecture Heal our Societies?. Scaffolds Symposium. Open Encounters With Society, Art And Architecture. International Symposium (KANAL, Brussels, du 22/11/2018 au 23/11/2018).
2018
Ledent, Gérald. Size Matters. Can the amount of dwellings in collaborative housing be a key for sustainability?. More together, more apart: Migration, densification, segregation, ENHR Conference (Uppsala, du 27/06/2018 au 29/06/2018).
2017
Niemann, Sebastian ; Ledent, Gérald. Contradiction between Techniques and Aesthetics in Early Modernism. The case of the Weissenhofseidlung. In: Archtheo '17 - conference proceedings, 2017. 978-605-9207-88-1.
2017
Ternon, Anna ; Ledent, Gérald. Learning from self-produced housing experiences in Brussel. Cities, Communities and Homes: Is the Urban Future Livable? (Derby).
2017
Ledent, Gérald. Permanence to allow Change. The archetypal room: the persistence of the 4x4 room. In: Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges: Proceedings of the EAAE ARCC 10th International Conference, RCR Press, 2017. 1351849573, 9781351849579.
2017
Ledent, Gérald ; De Visscher, Jean-Philippe. The European Quarter of Brussels: From District to Neighbourhood, the difference between Study and Research by Design. In: Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges: Proceedings of the EAAE ARCC 10th International Conference, CRC Press, 2017. 1351849573, 9781351849579.
2016
Ledent, Gérald ; De Visscher, Jean-Philippe. Différences entre “recherche par le projet” et “étude” : le cas du quartier européen de Bruxelles. Recherche et projet : productions spécifiques et apports croisés (ENSAP de Lille / LACTH) (Lille, du 17/11/2016 au 18/11/2016).
2016
Ledent, Gérald. Permanence to allow Change. The archetypal room: the persistence of the 4x4 room. Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, EAAE/ARCC 10th International Conference (Lisbon, du 15/06/2016 au 18/06/2016).
2015
Ledent, Gérald. Beyond Contingency. Sustainable Design versus Obsolescence. OBSOLESCENCE and RENOVATION, 20th Century Housing in the New Millennium, Architecture_MPS; Universidad de Sevilla, (Sevilla, du 14/12/2015 au 15/12/2015).
2015
Ledent, Gérald. Beyond contingency. Sustainable design versus obsolescence. OBSOLESCENCE and RENOVATION, 20th Century Housing in the New Millennium (Séville, du 14/12/2015 au 15/12/2015). In: AMPS Extended Proceedings: OBSOLESCENCE and RENOVATION – 20th Century Housing in the New Millennium, 2015.
2014
Ledent, Gérald. Potentiels Relationnels. L'aptitude des dispositifs physiques de l’habitat à soutenir la sociabilité. Bruxelles, le cas des immeubles élevés et isolés de logement, prom. : Masson, Olivier, 11/03/2014.
2015
De Visscher, Jean-Philippe ; Ledent, Gérald ; City Tools sprl. The European Quarter of Brussels: From a district to a neighbourhood, 2015. 180 p.