Last November, architect Juliaan Lampens passed away at the age of 93. His last completed project dates from 2002, but interest in his body of work has seen a remarkable resurgence over the past decade.

In 2009, Angelique Campens and Sara Noel Costa de Araujo organised an exhibition at Sint-Lucas in Ghent. In 2010, Campens compiled a book featuring photographs by Jan Kempenaers, texts by Francis Strauven and Joseph Grima, and an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist. In 2014, the Japanese magazine A U dedicated a now sold-out special issue to Lampen’s oeuvre. Photographers and artists – Kristien Daem, Aglaia Konrad, Hans Demeulenaere and Tim Onderbeke – based projects on his photogenic buildings. In 2017, the Vandenhaute-Kiebooms House was the only Belgian building featured in *sos Brutalism. A Global Survey. In 2018, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui gave his oeuvre the attention it deserved, with Lampens as the only retired architect featured in a Belgian special issue. The Flemish Architecture Institute will soon be reissuing the 1991 exhibition catalogue from deSingel, ‘because national and international interest is growing’, according to the VAi. To a foreign architecture enthusiast, but also to a domestic audience, it must now seem as though only one architect in Belgium produced meaningful work in the twentieth century.