Joseph Van Neck

See also: Neck (homonymy)

Joseph Van Neck , is a Belgian architect.

He was born in the common inhabitant of Brussels from Anderlecht on March 12th, 1880 and died in another suburb of Brussels, with Uccle on February 25th, 1959.

After being itself formed initially in the workshop of Henri van Dievoet, it followed the courses of architecture to the royal Académie of the Art schools of Brussels where it was mainly marked by Ernest Acker.

Van Neck obtained in 1903 the prestigious price Godecharle.

It was one of the pillars of the royal Académie of the Art schools of Brussels where it formed during forty years of nombreuxes generations of architects.

For the general public, its name remains attached to the Large palace of the Heysel where it could give lightness to the “colossal” style.

Remained near to its students, it had the good taste to be never taken with serious and to have kept the direction of humor, which becomes rare in the world of architecture.

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