Marcel Leborgne
Marcel Leborgne is a Belgian architect born with Gilly in 1898, wire of a family of architect: his/her father Hector Leborgne (1866-1949), his grandfather Armand-Joseph Leborgne (1838-1923) and his older brother Henri, architect too.
He makes his studies with the college of the Jésuites of Charleroi, then his studies of architecture in Saint-Luc (Tournai then Brussels), where he will receive his diploma in 1922.
He begins while working with his Henri brother, primarily on the rebuilding of Wijtschate, of 1921 to 1926, a commune close to Ypres crushed by the First World War.
Most important works of this architect carolorégien of the Entre-deux-guerres were maternity Reine Astrid in Charleroi and the City of Childhood with Marcinelle, recognized with the international plan like models of the modernistic art of the Années 1930. In 1935, it carried out the house of the sculptor Alphonse Darville with Mount-on-Marchienne. “ It created a simple, real and functional architecture. Only the forms counted for him and any useless or superfluous decoration was radically proscribed ” wrote one of its fellow-members, Edouard Bouillart.
He died on January 22nd 1978.
Catalog reasoned of its works on the site which is devoted to him.
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