Wallonia-Brussels Architecture Inventories #5 2023-2026

Look out for the new volume of Inventories – a series dedicated to architectural creation in Wallonia and Brussels – in all good bookshops from 29 May 2026.

Inventaires #5 – Engaging Architecture explores how the practices and tools of architecture – and, more broadly, architectural culture – are being mobilised in response to the contemporary social and environmental challenges facing our region – and, beyond that, Western Europe.

How can architects take a stand? How can we redefine dominant narratives? How can we shape society through space? How can we address the challenges of housing? How can we view the existing built environment as a resource and rethink the links between ethics and aesthetics?

Through six essays, a commissioned photographic series and an analysis of 37 projects that are as relevant as they are inspiring, this book explores these questions in practical terms. It highlights a selection of 140 spatial practices that question, experiment with and transform our built and unbuilt environment between 2023 and 2026 in Wallonia and Brussels. Combining ethics, resilience and ingenuity, these approaches demonstrate architecture in action, focused on renewed ways of living and conceiving the territory.

The book, accompanied by the film L'architecture que nous sommes directed by Karine Dana, was officially launched in Brussels on 28 May.

This publication was produced on the initiative of the Architecture Unit of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, under the direction of the Wallonia-Brussels Cultural Institute of Architecture (ICA), in partnership with Wallonia-Brussels Architectures.