Saturday, July 06 at 13:45 Docomomo Belgium organizes a guided tour of the Convent Clarissenklooster (Paul Felix, 1957-1965) by architect Marc Felix and Zsuzsanna Böröcz; and, at 16:30, a visit with the curator Marc Dubois to the exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”.
Architect Paul Felix (Ostend, 1913-1981), important and leading figure in the Belgian architectural landscape after the Second World War, designed the Convent Clarissenklooster (protected monument since 2002) in 1957 and 1965 The convent perfectly illustrates its typical position: architecture is not an individual matter for the architect, but a combination of forces that are beyond the reach of one person.
The exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958” tells the story about the destruction of Ostend during the Second World War and its reconstruction between 1944 and 1958. In 1945 the official starting shot for the reconstruction was given. City engineer Arnold De Vos and J.J. Eggericx, who was appointed as an urban planner, prepared a new urbanization plan for Ostend. The exhibition reflects a heavily damaged city that in a short period of time again had to convey the appearance of the “Queen of the Seaside Cities”.
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