Joseph Diongre
Joseph Diongre is a Belgian Architecte born the 1878 with Brussels and dead the March 3rd 1963.
It is known like the architect of the House of the radio of the INR in the Flagey place with Ixelles, its last realization.
It is student with the royal Académie of the Art schools of Brussels; it will finish its studies in 1901 by a training course with Paris in the architect Emile Duray. It will also go to the Netherlands.
In 1908, it is in charge of the execution at the conclusion of a contest of the realization of the communal House of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert.
Its other achievements are numerous; one notices in particular:
- the quoted Diongre with Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, street of Béguines 1922, together archtectural of social dwellings of a regionalistic style within a framework of greenery and which mixes apartments and houses of surfaces different with an aim of avoiding an architectural monotony. It uses on each frontage a particular element.
- the Church Midsummer's Day Baptist with Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in 1931. Modernistic construction reinforced concrete privileged by a decision with the town council of the time in order to carry out a project more economic than the use of brick or natural stone.
- the White House or Wit door , ordered by the poet and communal adviser Jef Mennekens with Throws, which occurred Charles Woeste, 183
- the Court Saint-Lazarre , together of 180 social housing, financed by the working Public limit company of the Dwellings of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in 1926. This construction is indicated by the economic choice of materials imposed in the context of the Entre-deux-guerres, but also by interior gangways on which the entries of tens of residences give.
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