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Victor Horta

1861–1947 · Belgian architect · Belgium

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Portrait of Victor Horta c. 1900 in "La Belgique d'aujourd'hui" (The Belgium of today). Scanned by Henrotte Damien on January 13 2007
Gustave Deltour · Licence: Public domain · Source

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Pioneered Art Nouveau architecture through flowing plans, iron structures and integrated ornament.

Key works

  • Hôtel Tassel

THE RETHINK

Victor Horta helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Victor Horta changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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