Victor Horta houses standing in Brussels

Horta built roughly forty buildings in Brussels and a good part of them came down in the 1960s; these four survived intact enough to be listed together by UNESCO in 2000. What separates them on the ground is access: one is a working museum in the architect's own house, one opened its doors only in 2021, and two are still private behind their glass and iron. Each entry says what was built when, for whom, and how far past the front door a visitor gets.

Places in this collection

• Horta Museum — Horta built his own house and his studio as two joined buildings in Saint-Gilles between 1898 and 1901, and the museum occupies both, so th…
• Hôtel van Eetvelde — Designed in 1895 for Edmond van Eetvelde, the administrator of the Congo Free State, and finished around 1900 to 1901. Horta used exposed s…
• Hôtel Solvay — Commissioned by Armand Solvay, son of the chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay, and built between 1895 and 1900 with a budget that let H…
• Hôtel Tassel — Built in 1892–93 for Emile Tassel, a friend of the architect, and generally treated as the founding work of Art Nouveau in Brussels, alongs…

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