DOI Artikel:
Olszewski, Andrzej K.: Architekci brukselscy Stanislas Jasinski i Jacques Obozinski
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ARCHITEKCI BRUKSELSCY S. JASIŃSKI I J. OBOZINSKI
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THE BRUSSELS ARCHITECTS
STANISLAS JASIŃSKI AND JACQUES OBOZINSKI
S u m m a r y
Stanislas Jasiński (1901-1978) and Jacques Obozinski (1890-1981) were ancestors of Polish
émigrants of the nineteenth century. They both played a role in architecture, especially that
of Brussels, which found an expression in numerous mentions in the studies and guidebooks
devoted to the Belgian architecture of the twentieth century.
In the beginning of the 1920s Jasiński contacted with Dutch neoplasticism and, during his
stay in Paris, with le Corbusier, becoming an advocate of the latter. As an architect and pain-
ter, he belonged to the group of artists grouping the avant garde of the paper “7 Arts”, propa-
gating on its pages the ideas of avant garde architecture.
In the years of 1929-1930 he completed the Airport in Antverpe-Deurne of simple forms
in the spirit of the “international style”. At that time, being under the influence of Le Corbu-
sier, he proposed a revolutionary conception of the Administrative Centre in the old part of
Brussels, in the form of skyscrapers in the shape of crosses. In the years 1934-1939, together
with Gaston Brunfaut, he realized the oncological department of the Institute Jules Bordet et
Paul Heger, introducing among other things a platform instead of stairs in the place where two
wings of the building join.
Most of Jasinski’s conceptions is fiat architecture. Starting from the 1935s onwards he
realized in the représentatives districts of Brussels several elegant houses such as Belle Vue
at Avenue de Gaulle no 50, at 127 Montjoie Street, 4 Avenue des Scarabées, 23 Avenue
l’Orée. Their simple forms, a resuit of the avant garde form, are characterized by an interesting
plastic of details. The résidences of Belvedere at 453 Avenue Louise (1939) and Chambord
at 341 Avenue Louise (1947) were a bold and conscious introduction of the skyscraper into
a Street with lower buildings. His further houses were built in the 1950s and 60s: Green Dale
at 499 Avenue Brugmann, Grande Large and Grande Clarté at 48-60 Avenue Churchill, and
a group of blocks Chenee, Hetraie, Chataignerie, Eden Green at Avenue Ptolomee. Within the
confines of the structure of a błock of flats Jasiński arrived at individual plastic solutions
through the system of balconies, Corbusier-like placing on pôles, introduction of sculptor
décorations. As regards the architecture of public utility, we hâve the Office Building of the
Society Commerce et Industrie at 30 Boulevard du Regent, with the élévation covered with
a glass shelter. He designed also smali houses outside Brussels. Among Jasinski’s project
which did not see the light of day, let us name the architectonie and town planning complex
Cité du Mundaneum in Antverpe (1941) in which he participated.
Jacques Obozinski designed on the forms doser to avant garde architecture and more
traditional or compromising. His Own House at 366 Avenue Brugmann of 1921 is doser to
the tradition of the English house. The Houses at 56 Avenue Lranklin Roosevelt (1928),
92 and 72 Avenue Plissart (1933). The latter project was designed together with J. de Ligne.
84 Avenue Deschanel (1935) and, finally, Maison minimum at 124 Basse belong rather to the
avant garde trend. Their form stressed by the system of the perpendiculars and the levels is
a resuit of the quest after the most satisfactory solutions of the function. The monaster at 25
Saint Bernard (1937) remade into a House is characterized by an accurate historicizing detail.
215
THE BRUSSELS ARCHITECTS
STANISLAS JASIŃSKI AND JACQUES OBOZINSKI
S u m m a r y
Stanislas Jasiński (1901-1978) and Jacques Obozinski (1890-1981) were ancestors of Polish
émigrants of the nineteenth century. They both played a role in architecture, especially that
of Brussels, which found an expression in numerous mentions in the studies and guidebooks
devoted to the Belgian architecture of the twentieth century.
In the beginning of the 1920s Jasiński contacted with Dutch neoplasticism and, during his
stay in Paris, with le Corbusier, becoming an advocate of the latter. As an architect and pain-
ter, he belonged to the group of artists grouping the avant garde of the paper “7 Arts”, propa-
gating on its pages the ideas of avant garde architecture.
In the years of 1929-1930 he completed the Airport in Antverpe-Deurne of simple forms
in the spirit of the “international style”. At that time, being under the influence of Le Corbu-
sier, he proposed a revolutionary conception of the Administrative Centre in the old part of
Brussels, in the form of skyscrapers in the shape of crosses. In the years 1934-1939, together
with Gaston Brunfaut, he realized the oncological department of the Institute Jules Bordet et
Paul Heger, introducing among other things a platform instead of stairs in the place where two
wings of the building join.
Most of Jasinski’s conceptions is fiat architecture. Starting from the 1935s onwards he
realized in the représentatives districts of Brussels several elegant houses such as Belle Vue
at Avenue de Gaulle no 50, at 127 Montjoie Street, 4 Avenue des Scarabées, 23 Avenue
l’Orée. Their simple forms, a resuit of the avant garde form, are characterized by an interesting
plastic of details. The résidences of Belvedere at 453 Avenue Louise (1939) and Chambord
at 341 Avenue Louise (1947) were a bold and conscious introduction of the skyscraper into
a Street with lower buildings. His further houses were built in the 1950s and 60s: Green Dale
at 499 Avenue Brugmann, Grande Large and Grande Clarté at 48-60 Avenue Churchill, and
a group of blocks Chenee, Hetraie, Chataignerie, Eden Green at Avenue Ptolomee. Within the
confines of the structure of a błock of flats Jasiński arrived at individual plastic solutions
through the system of balconies, Corbusier-like placing on pôles, introduction of sculptor
décorations. As regards the architecture of public utility, we hâve the Office Building of the
Society Commerce et Industrie at 30 Boulevard du Regent, with the élévation covered with
a glass shelter. He designed also smali houses outside Brussels. Among Jasinski’s project
which did not see the light of day, let us name the architectonie and town planning complex
Cité du Mundaneum in Antverpe (1941) in which he participated.
Jacques Obozinski designed on the forms doser to avant garde architecture and more
traditional or compromising. His Own House at 366 Avenue Brugmann of 1921 is doser to
the tradition of the English house. The Houses at 56 Avenue Lranklin Roosevelt (1928),
92 and 72 Avenue Plissart (1933). The latter project was designed together with J. de Ligne.
84 Avenue Deschanel (1935) and, finally, Maison minimum at 124 Basse belong rather to the
avant garde trend. Their form stressed by the system of the perpendiculars and the levels is
a resuit of the quest after the most satisfactory solutions of the function. The monaster at 25
Saint Bernard (1937) remade into a House is characterized by an accurate historicizing detail.