Brussels
Brussels — Art Deco social housing, 1921 to 1939
Between 1921 and 1939, the Foyer laekenois, the Foyer koekelbergeois, the Saint-Gilles housing societies, the Ixelles low-cost housing company, the Foyer etterbeekois and the Foyer bruxellois commissioned their housing estates from architects such as Jean-Baptiste Dewin, Joseph Diongre, Victor Bourgeois, François Van Meulecom and Joseph Caluwaers. This chronological tour, to be made by public transport, passes through Laeken, Koekelberg, Saint-Gilles — where Joseph Diongre built the 108 social dwellings on Rue de Bosnie in 1926 —, Ixelles and Etterbeek, from the blocks of 1921 to the Cité du Miroir on Rue Blaes, completed in 1939 following the clearance of an insalubrious neighbourhood.
9 stops · Duration · Distance multi-communes
Ensemble de logements sociaux du Foyer Laekenois, rue Charles Ramaekers 14-36
A group of twelve Art Deco social housing blocks designed in 1921 for the Foyer Laekenois by Jean-Baptiste Dewin, Joseph Diongre and Adolphe Puissant, each the author of one of three building types placed alternately.
Logements sociaux du Foyer koekelbergeois, rue Antoine Court 1-9
Group of social housing blocks in the Art Deco style built in 1921 for Le Foyer koekelbergeois, which assigned the plots to different architects to avoid monotony: Victor Bourgeois (nos.
Immeubles de logements sociaux, rue du Fort 117-121
Three Art Deco social housing blocks designed in 1922 by the architect Joseph Van Neck for the Société coopérative saint-gilloise de constructions d’habitations à bon marché.
Foyer saint-gillois
Large complex of nine social housing buildings in the Art Deco style, built in 1926 by the architect Joseph Diongre.
Le Foyer Saint-Gillois, chaussée de Forest et rue Gisbert Combaz
A group of five Art Deco housing blocks built on the corner of rue Gisbert Combaz for the cooperative society Le Foyer saint-gillois, signed "F(rançois) van Meulecom, arch, 1927".
Ensemble de logements sociaux, rue du Champ de la Couronne 36-48
A group of five Art Deco social housing blocks, some with shops on the ground floor, designed in 1929 by the architect François Van Stichel for the Foyer Laekenois.
Complexe d’immeubles de logements sociaux, rues François Dons, Jean Vandeuren et Léopold Delbove
A group of more than thirty Art Deco-inspired social housing blocks, built between 1928 and 1935 by the architect Joseph Caluwaers for the Société anonyme des habitations à bon mar
Logements sociaux du Foyer etterbeekois, rue de Haerne 204-208
Three blocks containing 42 flats, arranged in a U around a garden courtyard, built following a 1936 permit application by the architect Léopold De Jonghe for the Foyer etterbeekois social housing company.
Cité du Miroir
The Cité du Miroir is a complex of seventy-two social dwellings built in 1937-1939 for the Foyer Bruxellois, to plans by the architect H.
Translated from the French original.