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Simone Guillissen-Hoa (7 March 1916, Peking - May 30 1996, Brussels) is a belgian architect. She was one of the first women architects in Belgium and the first one to build a house^[1]. After the World War II, she contributed to the renewal of residential complexes. To do so, she designed several modernist houses that corresponded to the local style, in terms of the use of materials for exemple.

Biography

She was born in Beijing. Her father was a Chinese engineer and her mother a Polish-Jewish writer^[2]. Her brother, Leon Hoa, also studied architecture and practiced in France and China^[3]. After her studies in Brussels, at the Henriette Dachsbeck high school, she joined La Cambre to study architecture and graduated in 1938. She was the fourth woman to graduate from the school in this field^[4]. Shortly thereafter, she began an internship with Charles Van Nueten, her teacher at La Cambre, but finished it in Zurich with Alfred Roth. In 1937, she married Jean Guillissen. Although she left him before the war, she continued to use his name. During World War II, as a member of the resistance, he was shot, while she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp^[2] and later to the agfa commando, a satellite of the Dachau concentration camp.

Career

architectural practice

In 1947, she took over her activity by participating in reconstruction programs. For a few years, she worked in partnership with Jacques Dupuis (1952-1956). In 1957, she achieved one of her most remarkable projects, La Quinta, a large villa in La Roche that she designed with distinct functional zones. In 1947 she received an important commission for the sports center in Jambes, but it was not completed until the early 1960s. She also designed a provincial institute for blind people in 1953. In the early 1970s, she participated in the development of Louvain-la-Neuve by designing a student residence. In 1980, she completed the construction of the Maison de la Culture in Tournai in collaboration with Ginion, Pirson and Winance.

Other professional activities

In addition to her personal achievements, Simone Guillissen-Hoa also worked as a consulting architect for the French Ministries of Public Health (1946-47) and the Ministry of Culture (1967-68). Later she was a member of the S.C.A.B^[4]and of UfvAB - the Union of Women Architects of Belgium, founded in 1978 by the architect and activist Dita Roque-Gourary (1915-2010), also a graduate of La Cambre.

She was also a member of juries: at the Saint-Luc school in Liège, at the F.A.B. inter-school competition and for the Van de Ven competition in 1964, one year after having obtained the first mention^[4].

Achievements

Simone Guillissen-Hoa is at the origin of a great number of houses and various buildings, mainly in Belgium and Brussels, and mostly built between 1942 and 1980^[5]. Her most published achievements date from her collaboration with Jacques Dupuis. But her work extends well beyond these 4 years. The list below includes new buildings but she also contributed to renovations and transformations of existing projects^[5].

1947 : Villa, 92 avenue Lancaster in Uccle
1948 : Jambes Sports Center, Sports Park and Ball Stands
1949 : Double house, 22 avenue Bel-Air in Uccle
1950 : Building, 6 avenue Bel-Air in Uccle
1950 : House, 77 avenue des Chênes in Uccle
1950 : Villa, 57 avenue Alphonse XIII in Uccle

1954 : Villa, 282 chaussée de Malines in Wezembeek
1954 : Grandstands of the sports center of Jambes
1955 : Apartment building, 88 avenue Legrand in Ixelles
1955 : Tenzer house, 69 avenue général Lotz in Uccle^[6]
1955 : Villa, 13 avenue des Pavots in Kraainem
1956 : House, 95 rue du Tomberg in Woluwé-Saint-Lambert
1957 : Residence of Assche, 35 avenue des Lauriers in Woluwé-Saint-Pierre
1960 : Villa "La Quinta" à la Roche Tangissart, 91 avenue des Cerisiers in Baisy-Thy
1960 : House, 7 rue Marie Depage in Uccle
1960 : Groupe of 2 houses, 120 route Gouvernementale in Kraainem
1961 : Villa, 82 drève de la Fauvette in Linkebeek
1963 : Apartment building, 21 rue Langeveld in Uccle
1968 : Villa in Coq-sur-mer
1971 : Group of 2 student housing buildings in Louvain-la-Neuve
1980 : house of culture of Tournai

In collaboration with Jacques Dupuis

1952 : Villa (now demolished), 29 avenue des Genêts in Rhode-Saint-Genèse
1953 : City for old workers in Quaregnon
1953 :Jewelry Degreef, 24-26 rue au Beurre in Uccle
1953 : House Steenhout, 47 avenue Napoléon in Uccle - classified as a Brussels heritage site in 2011^[7]
1954 : Nursery School in Frameries
1954 : Center for the Blind and Amblyopic in Ghlin

Awards and distinctions

Simone Guillissen-Hoa received a real recognition from the critics and architects of her time. She is often the only woman mentioned in the collections of modern Belgian architecture and has won a number of awards and prizes for her works^[4].

1939 : Awarded at the "Mobilier Type" competition in Zurich
1942 : Awarded at the "Art et Industrie" competition
1945 : Awarded at the Social Centre's Jette competition
1954 : third mention ex-aequo at the prix Van de Ven
1963 :First mention in the prix Van de Ven

References

This article is excerpted in part or in whole from the Wikipedia article in French entitled "Simone Guillissen-Hoa" itself excerpted from the Dutch article of the same name.

^ "Une bourse FRESH FNRS pour Apolline Vranken, architecte et collaboratrice scientifique du laboratoire hortence". ULB, Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre-Horta (in français). 8 janvier 2021. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ ^a ^b Eber, Irene; Hill, Joan (2017). "Luo Chen (1883–1970), a Jewish Author in China". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (31): 169–179. doi:10.2979/nashim.31.1.08. ISSN 0793-8934. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
^ "Notice bibliographique de Léon Hoa (1912-?)". Arles, inventaire de la production architecturale et urbaine (1900-1980) (in Français).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Paul-Emile Vincent, France Van Laethem (1987). La Cambre a 60 ans (in Français). Bruxelles: ISAE La Cambre.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Maison Tenzer – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-30.
^ "Maison Steenhout – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-30.

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[1] "Une bourse FRESH FNRS pour Apolline Vranken, architecte et collaboratrice scientifique du laboratoire hortence". ULB, Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre-Horta (in français). 8 janvier 2021. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[:0-2] Eber, Irene; Hill, Joan (2017). "Luo Chen (1883–1970), a Jewish Author in China". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (31): 169–179. doi:10.2979/nashim.31.1.08. ISSN 0793-8934. Retrieved 2021-02-17.

[3] "Notice bibliographique de Léon Hoa (1912-?)". Arles, inventaire de la production architecturale et urbaine (1900-1980) (in Français).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[:2-4] Paul-Emile Vincent, France Van Laethem (1987). La Cambre a 60 ans (in Français). Bruxelles: ISAE La Cambre.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[:1-5] Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[6] "Maison Tenzer – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-30.

[7] "Maison Steenhout – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-30.

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