In the history of building, Louis Herman De Koninck is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louis Herman De Koninck as architect, designer (1896–1984).
Louis Herman De Koninck was born at Saint-Gilles in 1896. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as 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.
Louis Herman De Koninck died in 1984, aged 88. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
