Joseph Moutschen (18 March 1895 at
Jupille,
Belgium – 22 December 1977 at Jupille), was a Modernist Belgian architect.
Biography
Moutschen entered the Liège Académie des Beaux-Arts at the age of nine. He received his diploma in 1917 and entered the Association des Architectes de Liège in 1923. He became a professor, then director of the Académie de Beaux-Arts de Liège from 1948 to 1960. Moutschen designed a number of projects around Liège characterized by a pragmatic approach and an extreme sobriety of style. He is most remembered for the Albert I Memorial on the
Albert Canal at Liège, built in the form of a lighthouse.
Moutschen was a founding member of the
International Union of Architects and a member of its executive committee in 1948. He was president of the Belgian Fédération Royale des Architects until 1959.
Albert I Memorial, monument at the entry to the Albert Canal at Liège, esplanadeand park inaugurated 30 July 1939. Sculptors were
Louis Dupont. The 42 metres (138 ft) tower is topped by a lighthouse, with a sculpture of Belgian King
Albert I.[3]
Institute of Civil Engineering, on the quai Banning along the Meuse
Other buildings
Wandre school
Jupille scholl
Romsée school, 1959
The majority of the pumping stations for the Association Intercommunale pour le Démergement et l'Épuration of Liège
L'hôtel de Ville de Jemeppe avec B. Sélerin et J. Mullenaerts.
La Salle Prevert, Jupille
Fontaine Charlemagne, sculptor; Oscar Berchmans.
Garden city of Tribouilet, 1922. Executed for the International Exposition of 1930, a collection of inexpensive houses in a variety of styles by architects including Moutschen, Louis Herman de Koninck, Victor Bourgeois and Fernand Bodson.
BATIR, 15 July 1935, Issue dedicated to Joseph Moutschen, Paris 1935
Université de Liège, Institute of Civil Engineering
Family
His brother Jean Moutschen (1900–1951), was also an architect. His brother Michel Moutschen (1923–1947) was a war correspondent for the
Associated Press, killed by a sniper in Vietnam.[7] His son Jean Moutschen-Dahmen (1929–2001) was Professor Emeritus of fundamental genetics at the University of Liège.[citation needed]
References
^Pierre Frankignoulle, L'Université de Liège dans sa ville (1817–1989 ). Une étude d'histoire urbaine, Bruxelles, 2005.
^Vide aussi Les cahiers de l'Urbanisme n° 73, septembre 2009 pp52-56
^Émile Coenen, La forteresse de l'île Monsin, archives mises en dépôt au C.L.H.A.M.