Pieter Appelmans practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Pieter Appelmans as Flemish architect.
Pieter Appelmans was born in 1373. His recorded nationality is Duchy of Brabant.
Medieval construction was collective and slow - cathedrals outlasted the men who began them - and the master mason was a craftsman rather than an author.
He is recorded as architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Duchy of Brabant shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Pieter Appelmans died in 1434, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
