This volume devoted to Antoine Pompe (1873-1980) rediscovers the work and original struggles of a figure who was both central to and independent of the birth of modernist architecture in Belgium. On the eve of the First World War, his first independent project, Dr Van Neck's clinic in Saint-Gilles (1910), stood out as one of the most innovative Belgian buildings of its time. For fifteen years, he participated in and set the standard for most of the avant-garde architectural movements, particu