Ernest Hendrickx
Ernest Hendrickx is a Belgian architect born with Saint-Jose-ten-Noode (Brussels) on April 11th 1844 and died in Brussels on August 30th 1892.
Raise of Eugene Emmanuel Purple-the-Duke and Anatole de Baudot, Ernest Hendrickx represents the French rationalist current in the Belgian architecture of second half of the 19th century. With the variation of the debate on the styles and the academism, he endeavors to define a method of construction based on the respect of the program of the building owner, the properties of materials and the economy of the means.
To diffuse these principles, it devotes an important part of its time to teaching: successively professor at the art school of Saint-Jose and the industrial School (1869), it is named in 1873 professor of drawing, construction and history of architecture at the Polytechnic school of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles. During nearly fifteen years, between 1876 and 1892, it was also devoted to work of enlarging of the university whose seat was located street of the Grounds.
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