Victor Horta
Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau (1861–1947)
- Fame57.0
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- Architects rank#48
- Fame57.0
- Momentum10.2
- Architects rank#48
- Wikipedia9K
He bent iron into vines and opened walls to light — the Belgian who turned architecture organic in the 1890s and gave Art Nouveau its first house. Horta's curves rippled through Europe, then he moved on, and for decades the world forgot.
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Victor Pierre Horta was born 6 January 1861 in Belgium, a fervent admirer of French theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc whose ideas he reshaped into something entirely new. His Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93) is often considered the first Art Nouveau house: curving vegetal forms, steel frames, open floor plans, light flooding through skylights and glass. The style traveled — Hector Guimard borrowed it for Paris apartment blocks and the Metro entrances. Horta kept building: the Maison du Peuple (1895–99), the Centre for Fine Arts (1923–29), Brussels-Central station (1913–52), his work growing mor…
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