In the history of building, Louis Roelandt is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louis Roelandt as Belgian architect (1786–1864).
Louis Roelandt was born at Nieuwpoort in 1786. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, visual artist and painter.
Among his best-known works are Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, House of the Liberal Society and Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. 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 Roelandt died in 1864, aged 78. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
- Notable work: House of the Liberal Society
- Notable work: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
- Notable work: Sint-Annakerk
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