In the history of building, Jules Buyssens is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jules Buyssens as Belgian landscape architect (1872–1958).
Jules Buyssens was born at Waarmaarde in 1872. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
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 landscape architect and architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Jules Buyssens died in 1958, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
