Huib Hoste

After his studies, he worked in the office of his teacher Charles De Wulf (1862–1904) but took lessons in Ghent as a free apprentice of architect-engineer Louis Cloquet (1849–1920), who also employed him for a while.

He met the architects Robert van 't Hoff, Jan Wils, Jacobus Oud, and Michel De Klerk.

A month later, in an article in the Nieuwe Amsterdammer, he praised the watercolors of Henriette Willebeek le Mair, a Dutch watercolorist for children.

His 'bureau-fumoir' (office – smoking room), a collaboration with Victor Servranckx and Het Binnenhuis, was awarded a gold medal during the Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925.

[15][16] In the mid-twenties Hoste's professional prospects were promising, but in 1926 the collapse of a school under construction in Bruges due to a weak concrete foundation, killing five people, ruined him.

Not only did Hoste lose his professorship of architecture at La Cambre, the visual arts school founded by Henry van de Velde in Brussels in 1926, but he had to leave Bruges for Antwerp.

In 1929, he joined the Cercle et Carré (Circle and Square), a group of abstract artists in Paris, founded by Joaquín Torres García and Michel Seuphor.

As editor-in-chief of Opbouwen, he took part in the lively discussion for the development of Linkeroever, an area in the city of Antwerp on the left bank of the Scheldt, and worked on the plans for this in 1933 with Le Corbusier in collaboration with Renaat Braem.