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	Victor Horta - Great Buildings Online
		Victor Horta was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1861.
		Victor Horta created buildings which rejected historical styles and marked the beginning of modern architecture.
		Horta is on the Belgian 2000 frank note.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Victor_Horta.html (410 words)

	Victor Horta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victor Horta (January 6, 1861 - September 9, 1947) was a Belgian architect.
		Horta did well in his studies, and was taken on as an assistant by his professor Alphonse Balat, architect to Léopold II of Belgium.
		Victor Horta was interred in the Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Horta (418 words)

	Victor Horta - Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie gratuite et libre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Victor Horta est né à Gand en 1861.
		Victor fait un élève exceptionnellement brillant et attire l'attention de beaucoup de ses professeurs.
		Horta reprendra son cabinet à sa mort en 1895.
	www.belgique.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Victor_Horta (1048 words)

	Victor Horta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Horta's father died in 1880, he returned to Belgium and moved to Brussels (The capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), to study at the academy of fine arts.
		In Brussels, Horta built a friendship with Paul Hankar, later also to embrace Art Nouveau (A French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers).
		Horta did well in his studies, and was taken on as an assistant by his professor (Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university), and architect to the king (A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom), Alphonse Balat.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/victor_horta.htm (435 words)

	Horta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horta is a port town on the island of Faial in the Azores.
		Horta is the name of two towns in Portugal, both in the Distrito de Aveiro.
		Horta is also the Modern Greek transliteration of χορτα, a Modern Greek plural form of the word horto (Greek: χορτο) meaning grass or green vegetables especially dandelions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horta (199 words)

	Teaching Art Nouveau: Images and Activities - Victor Horta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Victor Horta, Interior of the Tassel House, 1893
		Like most of Horta's clients in the 1890s, he was also a member of a young, politically progressive middle class, eager to demonstrate its modernity.
		To achieve an integrated whole, Horta also insisted on designing all elements of the interior decoration: the stair rail and painted wall decoration, the mosaic flooring, electric light fixtures, even the door handle are elements of a total design.
	www.nga.gov /education/tchan_5_11.htm (424 words)

	Everything I Could Muster On Victor Horta
		Victor Horta was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1861.
		Victor Horta was one of the grand daddies of Modern Architecture, and certainly a big daddy of Art Nouveau.
		I believe that Horta's work spanning from 1890 to 1901 was his greatest, and definitely representative of the heart of the AN style.
	members.aol.com /_ht_a/hazeej/horta.html (1240 words)

	The Horta Museum in Brussels.
		The Horta Museum was actually the house that Victor Horta built for himself in the late 1890's.
		From the beautiful glass ceiling light falls into the house and thereby creating a much more natural illumination of the building than was the case in the traditional late 19th century houses in Brussels and Belgium.
		Victor Horta was born in 1861 in Gent, Belgium.
	www.trabel.com /brussel/brussels-museums-horta.htm (338 words)

	AllRefer.com - Horta, Victor, Baron (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The Tassel House in Brussels (1892–93), his first mature work, was the earliest monument of art nouveau.
		The plantlike design of the iron balustrade is echoed in the curving decorative lines of the mosaic floors, plaster walls, and other surfaces.
		Horta later reverted to a more traditional mode of architectural expression.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Horta-Vi.html (212 words)

	Brussels rich with Art Nouveau architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The style Horta helped pioneer was the first to use new industrial materials such as cast iron, combining it with glass to make larger, lighter interior spaces than had previously been possible.
		Horta was involved in every facet of his buildings, from the polished door handles to the stained glass skylights to the furniture that echoed the curving lines of the architecture.
		Horta was also responsible for the recently restored Palais des Beaux-Arts, created in 1928 when he was beginning to move into the geometrics of Art Deco.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05268/576142.stm (1070 words)

	HORTA, Victor HORTA biography by www.Senses-Artnouveau.com
		Victor Horta was one of the leading architect and designer of Art Nouveau and his style inspired many modernist artists all over Europe.
		Victor Horta was very influential in the birth of Belgian Art Nouveau Style, along with fellow architects Henri van de Velde, Paul Hankar and jeweler Philippe Wolfers.
		The houses are especially significant for their interior architecture: the irregularly shaped rooms open freely onto one another at different levels; the natural design of an iron balustrade is echoed in the curving decorative motifs of the mosaic floors or plaster walls.
	www.senses-artnouveau.com /biography.php?artist=HOR (468 words)

	Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		The four major town houses - Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta - located in Brussels and designed by the architect Victor Horta, one of the earliest initiators of Art Nouveau, are some of the most remarkable pioneering works of architecture of the end of the 19th century.
		Criterion i: The Town Houses of Victor Horta in Brussels are works of human creative genius, representing the highest expression of the influential Art Nouveau style in art and architecture.
		Criterion iv: The Town Houses of Victor Horta are outstanding examples of Art Nouveau architecture brilliantly illustrating the transition from the 19th to the 20th century in art, thought, and society.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/1005 (259 words)

	Hôtel Tassel Essay
		All the originality in Victor Horta's talent is to be found in this dwelling: in the plan, in the façade, in the choice and blend of materials of which it is built.
		In his Mémoires Horta states that "It was a time when, synthesising my thoughts, I proclaimed that the house should not only be built in the image of the occupant but it should also be his portrait." [3] This constituted a major break with tradition.
		Horta provided a stand for the projector which is built into the balustrade of the balcony.
	www.zen7560.zen.co.uk /work/tassel (2842 words)

	Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		Victor Horta was born in Ghent and lived between 1861 and 1947.
		The works of Victor Horta are reasonably spread out in Brussels so to walk around the three southern ones, around Sablon area which Ave.
		The decoration is impressive in Maison Horta the centre piece is the stair case, but the way that the furnishings throughout the building al tie into the main theme gives the building a really comprehensive feel.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/housesvictorhorta.html (461 words)

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		In 1893, Victor Horta built a house intended to serve as an architectural manifesto for a new style -- the Tassel House was built for his friend Emile Tassel, Professor at the Free University of Brussels.
		Horta wanted to create a global and harmonious interior decoration, with new inspiration and which refused to copy the styles of the past, as 19th century architects had been doing.
		Horta revolutionized the very design of buildings by giving them a central light well, by using open floor plans, and by his use of ironwork and organic detail.
	www.jack-travel.com /Belgium/Html/brussels_Capital_art_Nouveau.htm (506 words)

	The Washington Times: Museum, home of Horta culture; Architect an art-nouveau leader.(TRAVEL)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Victor Horta designed not only homes, but their decor and furniture as well.
		Horta, son of a shoemaker, was born in Ghent, and he studied there and in Paris before enrolling in the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
		He was a pioneer of modern architecture in Belgium and one of the Continent's most influential practitioners of art nouveau.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:89369699&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (225 words)

	Victor Horta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Victor Horta was a Belgian architect famous for being known as the father of Art Noveau.
		Horta's flowing spiral staircases sculpted after twisted organic forms such as vines were also very famous.
		Horta also revolutionized the use of iron in his buildings (ingrating across windows).
	rachel.ns.purchase.edu /~fescobal/project2/art5.html (224 words)

	Search Results for "Victor"
		...Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory.
		...Hugh of Saint Victor, 1096-1141, French or German philosopher and theologian, a canon regular of the monastery of St. Victor, Paris, from c.1115.
		Victor Emmanuel II, 1820-78, king of Sardinia (1849-61) and first king of united Italy (1861-78).
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Victor (258 words)

	Horta, Victor -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Horta was associated with the development of art nouveau.
		In the 20th century Horta became important as a submarine cable station, a seaplane base for transatlantic...
		Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde of Belgium and Emile Gallé and Louis Marjorelle of France designed furniture with the languid, free-flowing lines typical of art nouveau furniture, ceramics, glass, and metalwork.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9326674 (666 words)

	The Art Nouveau Collectors Site
		From the Autrique House to the Imaginary House
		The first important building by Victor Horta, the Autrique House, is a major element in the architectural heritage of Brussels.
		On the ground floor, visitors are granted free access to a permanent exhibition entitled “Espace Victor Horta,” which primarily uses photographic documents to place the building, Horta and Art Nouveau in a global historical and cultural context by including other masterpieces of this architectural style.
	www.collect1900.com (2644 words)

	Anatomy of an Exhibition - Tassel House (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The leader of this revolution was Victor Horta, who designed the first complete example of Art Nouveau architecture.
		In the stair hall plantlike tendrils spread from the exposed cast-iron columns to the banisters, wallpaper, and floor mosaics.
		Horta was at the forefront of using this modern material, believing that structural elements should not be concealed but should double as decoration.
	www.nga.gov /feature/nouveau/tassel_a.htm (164 words)

	Matthew Patay
		Architect Victor Horta (born 1861, died 1947), is at left.
		Victor Horta created buildings which rejected historical styles and marked the beginning of modern architecture.
		Horta was a leading Belgium Art Nouveau architect until Art Nouveau lost public favor.
	aes.iupui.edu /rwise/NoteofMonth/matthew_patayJuly2003Belgium.htm (469 words)

	Cupola's Art Nouveau Architecture - Maison Horta (1 of 4)
		Victor Horta designed and built this sinuous building pair for his own use between 1898 and 1901.
		Horta's house is on the left, and his studio / office is on the right.
		Only a few of Horta's works are open to the public on a regular basis.
	www.cupola.com /html/bldgstru/artnouv/slide/vhort01e.htm (124 words)

	Keeping it Nouveau: Victor Horta's Brussels \| Away.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yet when Belgian architect Victor Horta was just a pup, more than a century ago, his designs were revolutionary, creating a groundswell akin to Mies van der Rohe's glass boxes and Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses.
		Horta's town houses in the Belgian capital are mainly visible from street-level, some wedged between row houses and often overlooked by pedestrians on the go.
		Horta's own pad, however, became the Horta Museum, and remains open to one and all.
	away.com /world_heritage/brussels_horta.html (479 words)

	Victor, Baron Horta -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The great French novelist and poet Victor Hugo created two of the most famous characters in literature—Jean Valjean, the ex-convict hero of ‘Les Misérables', and the hunchback Quasimodo in ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
		Known for the vast range and immense quantity of his output, Hugo was able during much of his long life to write as many as 100 lines of verse...
		Bolivian statesman Victor Paz Estenssoro was a leader of the left-wing Bolivian political party National Revolutionary Movement (MNR).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9041132 (703 words)

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	Presentation of the University's studies - page 17
		Responding to human needs that are as basic as they are permanent, architecture is a universal art- For more than twenty years throughout the world and in particular in Europe we have seen an acknowledgement of the role and the new responsibilities of the architect.
		Looking towards the future at the service of society, the Victor Horta Institute offers a training that combines artistic sensitivity, scientific knowledge and a humanist reflection.
		The Victor Horta Institute of Architecture is associated to the ULB.
	www.ulb.ac.be /enseignements/presentation-uk/presentation-uk_17.html (150 words)

	Hotels.be (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A movement rejecting the prevailing conformism of the end of the 19th century, Art nouveau was a great success in Belgium, at least until the outbreak of World War I. Architect Victor Horta personified this trend in Brussels.
		Horta combined the use of glass and metal in his buildings with consummate skill, and created a new concept of space.
		Victor Horta designed several mansions in Brussels like the Hôtel Tassel (1893), Hôtel Solvay (1895), the Maison du Peuple (1896-1899), the department store "A l'Innovation" (1901).
	www.hotels.be /content/uk/Art-nouveau.cfm (277 words)

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