Victor Horta was a Belgian architect who pioneered the Art Nouveau style in the late 19th century. He is known for his whiplash design style using organic forms and sensuous curves. Two of his most famous buildings were the Hotel Tassel in Brussels, built in 1893-1894, which featured a curved bay and symmetrical facade, and the Hôtel Van Eetvelde in Brussels from 1895-1898, which had an iron frame structure and whiplash curves in the design. Horta was a revolutionary architect who helped establish the Belgian Art Nouveau style through his unique designs.

1. Victor Horta was a Belgian architect
and designer. He pioneered the Art
Nouveau style of Architecture, which
is depicted in a variety of beautiful
buildings throughout Belgium. He is
widely known as one of the most
influential personalities of the 19th
century in Europe.
Made a highly original use of steel
frames and skylights to bring light into
the structures, open floor plans, and
finely-designed decorative details.
Victor Horta(1861-1947)

2. Known for his "whiplash" design style, the
organic forms and shapes of Belgium Art
Nouveau as established by Victor Horta
generated creatively revolutionary thinking and
marked the beginning of modern architecture
and design.
Plant-like forms and sensuous double curves,
that would later be known as "the Belgian
line" were adapted to fit every detail of his
buildings.
Elements including painted glass, furniture,
doors, wrought-iron, metalwork, door handles
and even the house bell.
STYLE

3. HOTEL TASSEL
•Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor
Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and
professor Emile Tassel in 1893–1894. It is
located at 6, Rue Paul-Emile Jansonstraat in
Brussels, Belgium
•Art Nouveau building,

4. HOTEL TASSEL

5. STAIRWAY –INSPIRED BY NATURE
HOTEL TASSEL

6. DESIGN ELEMENTS
•Narrow and symmetrical façade‘. •The central curved bay with details of Bow widow
HOTEL TASSEL

7. Volkshuis (House of the People)
The Maison du Peuple (in French) or Volkshuis (in
Dutch), both literally translate as The People’s
Home or The People’s Hostel, was a public building
in Brussels. It was one of the most influential
buildings of the Art Nouveau design in Belgium. The
building provided rooms for offices, coffee shops,
shops, meeting rooms and a party hall.
It was demolished in 1965, and a skyscraper was
built on site. Its demolition has been regarded as an
"architectural crime" and an example of
"Brusselization".

9. Hôtel Van Eetvelde, Brussels (1895-98)
Horta was given an immense amount of
freedom in design of the Hôtel Van
Eetvelde.
The facade of the house discloses a kind
of rationalist, industrial structure,
consisting of an iron frame with large
windows, adorned with the whiplash
curves that had become Horta's
trademark.
Similar to the Tassel House, the
significance of the building lies in its
octagonal stair-hall at the center of the
initial structure, whose metallic columns
frankly reveal the unusual industrial frame
of the residence.

10. A central court went up the height of the
building, bringing light from the skylight above
Doorway with stained glass