GASTON BRUNFAUT
Gaston Brunfaut, born in Jemelle on February 6, 1894, died in Brussels (Uccle) on June 1, 1974.
Brother of Fernand Brunfaut, an architect aswell, Gaston was a follower of modernism, which he would praise in many architectural magazines such as Bâtir, l’Emulation, La Maison, etc.
He trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, then with architect Paul Bonduelle and with Gaston, his eldest brother, an architect and politician, before setting up on his own.
As much as architecture itself, he was interested and excelled in regional planning and design of public buildings and facilities. He would also be president of the Belgian Society of Modernist Urban Planners and Architects.
In 1947, he was one of the eleven architects appointed to design the United Nations headquarters in New York.
