Constantin Brodzki

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Entrance to the cinema at the Museum of Cinematography in Brussels

Constantin Brodzki (born 26 October 1926 in Rome, Italy) is a Belgian architect. He comes from an Italian-Polish family, studied at La Cambre in Brussels. In 1948 he completed his studies and received a scholarship to study at Lambrichs in New York, where he learned modern technologies and innovative designs used in the United States. He returned to Belgium in 1952 and began work as an independent architect, with several projects completed jointly with Corneille Hannoset. They jointly designed interiors of shops, galleries, their work is the interior architecture opened in the 1956 Brussels museum film, the façade of the Congo fauna during the EXPO 1958 exhibition, the Musée lapidaire Montauban in Buzenol. They collaborated until the end of the 50s, their designs were characterized by minimalism of the decor and the use of innovative, ingenious solutions. An important achievement was the model house of the SBAUM type, which they created in 1953. Since 1960 he started designing on the basis of prefabricated concrete facades, which was created by the company producing cement CBR. The design of this technology included the home of the architect himself, the CBR headquarters in Auderghem and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), built between 1980 and 1983 in Terhulpen. Apart from the work of architect Constantine Brodzki, he was a lecturer at La Cambre and the University of Bergen. Bibliography

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