François Malfait

François Malfait, born in Brussels on 19 April 1872 and died in the same city on 6 November 1955, was the city architect of Brussels from 1917 to 1942. In 1924-1925 he designed the Faculty of Medicine of the Université libre de Bruxelles on boulevard de Waterloo, built from 1925 to 1928. He also designed the school on rue Ernest Allard, now the Athénée Robert Catteau, designed in 1923 and inaugurated in 1927. He also designed the Léon Lepage monument, carried out in bluestone from 1922 to 1928 by the sculptor De Bremaecker. In 1934-1935 he built the former municipal hearse garage near the Brussels cemetery in Evere for the City, designing even its window frames, ironwork and interior joinery.

Translated from the French original.