Tag: planning application

The improvising bouwmeester,* or: how Raymaekers’ buildings got built 

The improvising bouwmeester,* or: how Raymaekers’ buildings got built 

Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger and James Westcott

The following text first appeared in Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger, and James Westcott, Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium (Brussels: Rotor, 2023), 168, 174-178. *Master builder, from the middle ages, responsible for materials, design, construction, workforce, and client liaison.[1] Raymaekers rejected the modern diminution of the architect’s… Read More