Michel Polak

Michel Polak, a Belgian-Swiss architect born in Mexico City on 27 January 1885 and died in Brussels on 4 October 1948, worked in Montreux before settling in Brussels in the early 1920s. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (1903-1907), then took courses at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1907-1911). For Lucien Kaisin he built the Résidence Palace, built from 1922 and completed around 1927. For Louis Empain he designed the Villa Empain (1930-1934), in marble, granite and bronze, listed in 2007 and now home to the Boghossian Foundation. With Alfred Hoch he also designed the former George Eastman Dental Institute (1935).

Translated from the French original.