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The multiple origins of modernist architecture criticismin the Belgian avant-garde magazine 7Arts (1922-1927)Irene LundFaculty of Architecture, Université Libre de Bruxelles ; Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenBetween the 1920s and the end of the 1930s, several figures of architecture criticism developed in the context of the modernist avant-garde magazines.In Belgium, the magazine 7 Arts (1922-1927) can be considered as a laboratory in which several architecture critics developed their practice, and later became prominent critical figures for several decades.They were not architects themselves and practiced several different disciplines or critical genres.They seem to have responded Jasinsky’s call when he condemned (in the fourth issue of Magazine 7 Arts, November 1923) “the complete absence in Belgium of an architecture criticism”.This paper focuses on three key figures : Pierre Bourgeois (1898-1976), a poet and literature critic, Maurice Casteels (1890-1962) a design critic ; and Pierre-Louis Flouquet (1900-1967), a painter and art critic. It aims at showing how each one elaborated his type of architecture criticism from his own practice of other genres of criticism.This paper is part of a PhD on Flouquet’s contribution to the debate on architecture and design in Belgium and his role as a mediator in the diffusion of modernist ideals.&#160;Irene Amanti Lund (1974) graduated as an architect from ISACF-La Cambre in Brussels (Belgium) in 1999 and has a postgraduate master’s degree in architecture from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) in 2002. Since 2002 she has been a researcher and assistant lecturer at ISACF-La Cambre, now the Faculty of Architecture of Université Libre de Bruxelles. She teaches in the design studio of “innovative housing”, in the course of architecture archives, and coordinates the collection of architecture archives of the university. In addition, she is working on a PhD on Pierre-Louis Flouquet’s writings on architecture and design (joint PhD between Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Université libre de Bruxelles).