Claude Strebelle
Belgian architect (1917–2010)
Claude Strebelle (2 February 1917, Brussels – 16 November 2010, Liège) was an architect and Belgian town planner, graduate of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1941.
Biography
Based in Tilff, in the Liège region, Claude Strebelle founded Sart Tilman workshop, an important architectural office.
In 1946, he created a phalanstery with his brothers Jean-Marie Strebelle and Olivier Strebelle, as well as the painter Carlo de Brouckère in a castle in Torhout. Belgian architect André Jacqmain, sculptor Aroldo Zavaroni and the ceramist Théo Kisselov took part in this project.
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