Marinus Jan Granpré Molière practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Marinus Jan Granpré Molière as Dutch architect (1883-1972).
Marinus Jan Granpré Molière was born at Oudenbosch in 1883. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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, university teacher and furniture designer.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Marinus Jan Granpré Molière died in 1972, aged 89. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
