In the history of building, Juliaan Lampens is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Juliaan Lampens as Belgian architect (1926–2019).
Juliaan Lampens was born at De Pinte in 1926. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, teacher and photographer.
His work is associated with brutalist architecture.
Among his best-known works are Van Wassenhove House and Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Kerselarekapel. 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.
Juliaan Lampens died in 2019, aged 93. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Van Wassenhove House
- Notable work: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Kerselarekapel
- Movement: brutalist architecture
