Frans-Andries Durlet is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Frans-Andries Durlet as architect (1816–1867).
Frans-Andries Durlet was born at Antwerp in 1816. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, sculptor and university teacher.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Belgium shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Frans-Andries Durlet died in 1867, aged 51. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts
