The Carpenter and the Draughtsman: an Embedded Report on the Architecture of Juliaan Lampens

His father a carpenter, Juliaan as his father's son a draughtsman first and foremost. Craftsmanship is the common denominator of the father and the son, and the prophecy of the works to come. This is the solid basis from which Juliaan Lampens¿ work emerges, and to which it always returns. Architectural history tends to categorise Lampens¿ work too readily as Modernism / subcategory Brutalism. And he seems to confirm this himself, when he openly relates his work to Mies and Le Corbusier, and explains it as a synthesis of both. ?But for a more precise definition of his place in architectural history, I would like to add two more fundamental aspects: the complexity of Lampens as a person, and his roots, which extend beyond Modernism.