Major town houses of the architect Victor Horta

The major town houses of Victor Horta are four houses in the city of Brussels in Belgium which have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. All four houses were designed and built by the Belgian architect Victor Horta who pioneered the Art Nouveau style during the mid 1890s.

Victor Horta was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1861 and lived for several years in Paris before returning to Belgium to work as an architect in 1880. He achieved rapid success, working on several prestigious buildings and receiving a number of official posts including a position at the Free University of Brussels. From 1892, Horta began working in the new Art Nouveau style. In 1893, he designed the Hôtel Tassel which is considered the first example of Art Nouveau architecture. He applied the same style to many subsequent buildings, including the Hôtel Solvay , Hôtel van Eetvelde and his own house and workshop . Among the architects who were inspired by Horta's works of the period are Antoni Gaudí and Hector Guimard.

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