Gédéon Bordiau belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Gédéon Bordiau as Belgian architect (1832-1904).
Gédéon Bordiau was born at Neufvilles in 1832. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels.
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 and urban planner.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Gédéon Bordiau died in 1904, aged 72. 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 of Brussels
