(b Brussels, 3 Dec 1864; d Brussels, 29 Nov 1935). Belgian architect. He began his career in 1892 by winning a competition for the construction of small workers’ houses in Laeken, Brussels. In 1899, also as a result of a competition, he became architect to Le Foyer Schaerbeekois, the organization providing low-cost housing in Schaerbeek, Brussels. Between 1900 and 1910 he built seven groups of low-cost housing for the organization, mainly designed as houses divided into flats. The composition of their façades was sober and rational, incorporating an Art Nouveau stylistic vocabulary similar to that of Paul Hankar: contrasting materials, visible lintels and small iron columns, the use of colour, particularly yellow and red brick, and sgraffito decoration.