Current exhibition :

HOUSES FOR HEROES
1915-1922

GARDEN CITIES FOR WAR VETERANS

an exhibition from the Archives d’Architecture Moderne taking place in the CIVA building.
Free entrance from 8/12/2015 to 25/09/2016
Tuesday to Friday 12h-18h
Closed on bank holidays
Rue de l’Ermitage 55 – 1050 Brussels

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The AAM regularly hold exhibitions at the Fondation pour l’Architecture, the CIVA and at various locations in Belgium and Europe: the Halles Saint-Géry and Chapelle des Brigittines in Brussels, the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris, as well as in the towns of Valenciennes, Pisa, Lyon, Venice, Lille, etc.

Antoine Pompe and l’Effort moderne en Belgique 1890-1940, the first exhibition produced by the Archives d’Architecture Moderne, was held in 1968 at the Ixelles Museum. This was the first time since the Second World War that an exhibition had been presented offering a retrospective of the various trends in Belgian architecture during the first half of the 20th century. Since then, the AAM have gone on to organise more than a hundred others. These include: La Cambre 1928-1978, Henri Sauvage, Industry Landscape, Henry van de Velde, The Art Nouveau façade as a total work of art, Archigram, Sue and Mare architects and decorators, The Parc Léopold, Art Deco and Modernism, Rob and Léon Krier, Landscape Architecture, Akarova, Renaat Braem, Louis Herman De Koninck, Paul Hankar, Brussels Art Nouveau, Cartoon Architecture, Belgian Avant-Garde 1880-1900, Words of home and city, Brussels Art Deco, The garden cities in Belgium, Jos Bascourt architect, Model apartement of the century, Robert Schuiten architecte, Brussels-Vienna, Brussels-Paris, Architecture and freemasonery, Le Bon et le Mauvais Goût, Then shops, Alban Chambon architect, The kitchen livestyle, J.-J. Eggericx creator of garden cities, 1914-18 and after…

The exhibitions are held at the CIVA and other sites. Since 2000, a permanent exhibition site at the archives consultation room enables the public to become acquainted with the wealth and variety of their collections. Items from the collections are regularly loaned to Belgian and international institutions, such as the kitchen designed by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand for the Cité Radieuse in Marseille or the dance costumes by Akarova, one of the most remarkable collections of its kind in Europe.

Many exhibitions are designed specifically as travelling exhibitions (Centre Georges Pompidou, Fondation Le Corbusier, architecture museums throughout Europe) and some are tailor-made for institutions, such as those occasionally organised for the Journées du patrimoine de la Ville de Valenciennes (Valenciennes Heritage Days) in northern France.

Access to the exhibitions is organised by the AAM within the CIVA and is free of charge for paid-up members. For further details, click here.