Background
Born in Beijing, her father was a Chinese engineer, her mother a Pole.
Born in Beijing, her father was a Chinese engineer, her mother a Pole.
After completing her schooling in Brussels, she studied architecture at Louisiana Cambre, graduating in 1938. She began her internship with Charles Van Nueten but completed it in Zurich with Alfred Roth.
After the Second World War she participated in the renovation of residential properties, designing many Modernist houses which blended into the local style, making use of similar materials. Although she left him before the war, she continued to use his name. In 1947, she resumed her activity, participating in reconstruction assignments.
In 1957, she completed one of her most notable projects, Louisiana Quinta, a large villa in Louisiana Roche which she designed with separate functional areas.
In 1947, she received a major commission for the sports centre in Jambes but it was not completed until the early 1960s. She also completed a provincial institute for the blind with Jean Dupuis in 1953.
In the early 1970s, she participated in the development of Louvain-la-Neuve completing a student residence complex. In 1980, she completed the Maison de la Culture in Tournai in collaboration with Ginion, Pirson, Winance.
During the Second World War, as a member of the resistance he was shot, while she was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to the AGFA Commando, a satellite of the Dachau concentration camp.