Touching the nerve of Belgians
2015-07-16


cons: "One architect told me that someday I would end up with a suicide on my conscience because of my bullying. Another accused me of drastically changing his children's future by making him redundant as an architect. For all these reasons it's important to be able to communicate in the open."

pros: "Other people just think it's fantastic. The child of one owner jumped up and down in excitement when we rang and asked for permission to use their house in our book: 'I knew you'd come, at last!'"

Photography by Hannes Coudenys for his project and blog, Ugly Belgian Houses.

I admire the fact that he saw something not quite right happening in Belgian landscaping and took action on it. Obviously he did divide an anyway divided enough country even more, but that is what's so great about it. Initiating a change perhaps?

... and some houses making it to his blog are not even ugly, on the contrary, quite remarkable ...


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