With terrace houses, courtyards, large green areas, and lively building faces, it tried to overcome the limitation and monotony in mass housing until that day.
(1897-1962) Belgian architect and urban planner. He is especially known for his contributions to mass housing design. He was born in Charleroi, Belgium. Little is known about his childhood. He was enrolled in the Belgian Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1914 and successfully graduated in 1919. Later, he specialized in urban planning and became known both in Belgium and internationally for his mass housing designs. In 1930, he enabled the 3rd CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) meeting to be held in Brussels.
Victor Bourgeois (29 August 1897 – 24 July 1962) was a Belgian architect and urban planner, considered the greatest Belgian modernist architect.
According to Victor Bourgeois, a building is first and foremost a mirror of society. In line with this definition, he focused his work on “the city and the housing system”. Later, he became a professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture, specializing in mass housing. His first important design was the Cite-Moderne, which he realized in Berchem-Ste-Agathe, near Brussels, between 1922 and 1925. Here, with terrace houses, courtyards, large green areas, and lively building faces, he tried to overcome the limitation and monotony that had existed in mass housing until that day.
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