Ar Nouveau in Belgium. Part 2.

I managed to get permission to shoot in Victor Hort’s own house (it was still copyrighted by heirs for several years) and we can understand how Orta built his houses from function to form, finding out first the number of tenants, their relationships, addictions and habits, and only then building the house like a tailor sews a custom suit, given that one leg is shorter than the other, one shoulder is higher, and hiding the hinged belly of the customer.

In the world there are less than a hundred houses built on this principle.