Lucien De Vestel is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Lucien De Vestel as Belgian architect (1902–1967).
Lucien De Vestel was born at Ixelles in 1902. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels.
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.
His best-known building is Berlaymont building. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Lucien De Vestel died in 1967, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Berlaymont building
- Trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
