Jos Smolderen

Jos (Joseph) Smolderen, born in Borgerhout on 4 October 1889 and died in Antwerp in 1973, studied at the Antwerp Academy from 1903, notably under Léonard Blomme, and won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1914. During the First World War he stayed in the Netherlands, among other places. In the early 1920s he went into partnership with Jan Vanhoenacker and John Van Beurden; the firm's works include the Jussiant house in Antwerp (1924) and the Sint-Rochuskerk in Halle (1925-1928). He designed the Christ the King church in Antwerp (1928-1930) and was chief architect of the 1930 International Exhibition in Antwerp. He worked on the Boerentoren in Antwerp with Emiel Van Averbeke and Jan Vanhoenacker, and designed the Inter-Allied Memorial at Cointe in Liège, inaugurated in 1937. In 1927 he succeeded Victor Horta at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. The corpus also includes the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Warneton (1924-1926), rebuilt under the direction of Jan Vanhoenacker, with John Van Beurden and Smolderen, and the De Trouw building in Antwerp (1932).

Translated from the French original.