Henry Lacoste

Henry Lacoste, born in Tournai on 16 January 1885 and died in Brussels on 28 April 1968, graduated in 1908 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (Acker studio), then continued his training at the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris. He built the Saint-Aybert church and town hall in Bléharies (1919-1925), the Institute for Medical Research in Jette (1927-1929) and the Buysinghen sanatorium (1927-1938). In the Limburg mining region he built the churches of Zwartberg (1937-1941) and Beringen (1938-1948), and after the war the RTT holiday home in Oostduinkerke (1948-1962). He chaired the Société centrale d'architecture de Belgique (1950-1952) and became a full member of the Royal Commission for Monuments and Sites in 1958.

Translated from the French original.