Henri Van Dievoet practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Henri Van Dievoet as Belgian architect (1869–1931).
Henri Van Dievoet was born at Brussels in 1869. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
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.
His best-known building is Corinthia Grand Hotel Astoria Brussels. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Henri Van Dievoet died in 1931, aged 62. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Corinthia Grand Hotel Astoria Brussels
