Victor Horta’s La Maison du Peuple, built in Brussels over the years 1896-99 and destroyed in the year 1965 as an act of barbarism in the squalid interests of speculative development , appears to have resisted most attempts at analysis Perhaps because its complexly determined and expressed structure stood in the tendential conflict between historical inhibition and revolutionary rupture in both political and technical domains However, two significant evaluations of it have been carried out.