Cornelis Floris II is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Cornelis Floris II as Flemish architect, sculptor and print artist (1514–1575).
Cornelis Floris II was born in 1514. His recorded nationality is Flanders.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Flanders shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Cornelis Floris II died in 1575, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
