The architect’s house, the home the architect builds for himself, is a tool more powerful than one would imagine at first. As being the client, as well as the designer, the architect has hardly any constraints during the design and construction process, besides his own wishes. He can use his own house for instance as a unique opportunity for a technological or architectural experiment and cultivate his sense of “entrepreneurial daring” to the fullest. The house can also become a manifest, a pilot project, a masterpiece or turning point in the architect his career. Thereby it represents the best possible business card within the profession.
Register - Map
During the research project "Architects' houses in Brussels. Strategies for Valorisation", an extensive database of 365 architects' houses in the Brussels-Capital Region, build by and for architects themselves between 1830 and 1970, was composed. A condensed version of this database is accessible through this website and includes basic information such as the name of the architect, the address, typology, listing information, presence of an architectural studio, etc. The consensed fiche of each architect's house can be accessed by clicking on one of the houses shown on the map below. More detailed information on the architect's house and the architect himself, can be requested by clicking the "detailed access" button.
Do you know an architect's house not yet included in the register, or do you have additional information to share on one of these houses? Let us know through the "contribute" button!
Note: demolished houses are not included in map view. Please use list view to access these houses.