Gustave Serrurier-Bovy is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Gustave Serrurier-Bovy as Belgian architect (1858-1910).
Gustave Serrurier-Bovy was born at Liège in 1858. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He trained at Royal Academy of Arts of Liège.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, decorator and furniture designer.
His work is associated with art nouveau.
His best-known building is Villa l'Aube. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Belgium shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gustave Serrurier-Bovy died in 1910, aged 52. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Villa l'Aube
- Movement: Art Nouveau
- Trained at Royal Academy of Arts of Liège
