CENTRAL office for architecture and urbanism

Victor Bourgeois (1897–1962) was the pivotal figure of the international Modern Movement in Belgium. In the 1920s he built the Cité Moderne in Brussels, a cooperative housing project, and was invited to design a house for the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart. Together with his brother Pierre, he founded the artistic weekly 7 Arts, which developed into the most important mouthpiece of the Modern Movement in Belgium. As one of the youngest founding members of the CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture), he played an important role in its early years.