Career
Moutschen entered the Liège Académie des Beaux-Arts at the age of nine. He received his diploma in 1917 and entered the Association des Architectes de Liège in 1923. He became a professor, then director of the Académie de Beaux-Arts de Liège from 1948 to 1960.
Moutschen designed a number of projects around Liège characterized by a pragmatic approach and an extreme sobriety of style.
He is most remembered for the Albert I Memorial on the Albert Canal at Liège, built in the form of a lighthouse. He was president of the Belgian Fédération Royale des Architects until 1959.
The Pont-barrage de Monsin at Liège, 1930
Institute of Civil Engineering at Val-Benoît,1937, on the quai Banning at Liège, in the Bauhaus stle of Walter Gropius. Jules Seeliger Surgical Institute, rue Jonfosse at Liège (1936-1939)
"Aérogare 58" at the Brussels Airport, Zaventem, in collaboration with Georges Bontinck de Gand and Maxime Brunfaut, 1958
Albert I Memorial, monument at the entry to the Albert Canal at Liège, esplanadeand park inaugurated 30 July 1939.
Sculptors were Louis Dupont.
The 42 metres (138 ft) tower is topped by a lighthouse, with a sculpture of Belgian King Albert I.
Institute of Civil Engineering, on the quai Banning along the Meuse
Wandre school
Jupille scholl
Romsée school, 1959
The majority of the pumping stations for the Association Intercommunale pour le Démergement et l"Épuration of Liège
L"hôtel de Ville de Jemeppe avec B. Sélerin et J. Mullenaerts. Louisiana Salle Prevert, Jupille
Fontaine Charlemagne, sculptor. Oscar Berchmans. Garden city of Tribouilet, 1922.
Executed for the International Exposition of 1930, a collection of inexpensive houses in a variety of styles by architects including Moutschen, Louis Herman de Koninck, Victor Bourgeois and Fernand Bodson.
Cité des Cortils (1925 - 1935)
"Gallo-Roman" town, Jupille
"Héros of Rabosée" Monument at Wandre, A. Fivet, statuary, F. Close, sculptor
House of the architect, 40 Rue Jean-Jaures Jupille, 1932
Monument to the Belgian Repression of Grâce-Berleur, 1952
Mi-la-Ville footbridge at Jupille.