Peter Anton von Verschaffelt practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Peter Anton von Verschaffelt as architect (1710–1793).
Peter Anton von Verschaffelt was born at Ghent in 1710. His recorded nationality is Flanders.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as sculptor, architect and landscape architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Flanders shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Peter Anton von Verschaffelt died in 1793, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
