Born at Turnhout 15th of May 1909
Adress: Turnhout, Steenweg op Mol 66
Marital status: Married, father of 6 children
Profession: Provincial architect of the arrondissement Turnhout
• 1929: Laureate at the Drawing Academy in Turnhout (state medal)
• 1932: 2nd prize Gerard de Ridder
• 1933: Laureate at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, 1st prize De Coster
• 1934: 3rd prize Henri Blomme
• 1935: 1st prize De Keyser at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp
• 1936: 1st prize Leonard Blomme, triennial prize for architecture at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp
• 1936: 2nd triennial prize for architecture of Antwerp
• 1936: 3rd Prix de Rome for architecture
• 1937: Appointed as provincial architect for the Turnhout district
• 1937: Study trips to the Netherlands and France (urban planning)
• 1937: International exhibition in Paris, architectural design exhibited with the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp
• 1938: Four study trips to the Netherlands
• 1938: Director of voluntary PLB. services in Turnhout
• 1939: Provincial Inspector of voluntary PLB. services
• 1939: Study trips to the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and France
• 1939: Delegate at the International Congress for Urban Planning and Public Housing in Stockholm
• 1940: Publication of ‘Architecture in the Landscape and the Urban Planning Problem’ (238 pages) with support from the provincial government of Antwerp
• 1946: Publication of the book ‘Turnhout’ in Amsterdam by publisher Albert de Lange
• 1946: Lecture for the N.I.R. about ‘The Problem of Urbanization in our Country’
• 1948: Publications of various articles on architecture, urban planning and housing, including:
o Urban planning problems
o Ribbon development and its drawbacks
o The regional plan
o Nationalism in architecture
o Family policy and urban planning
• 1940: Chairman of the Beauty Commission of the City of Turnhout
• 1946: Member of the Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes
• 1946: Foreign member of the ‘Société Française des Urbanistes’
• 1947: Member of the urbanization commission of the National Society of Belgian Railways
• 1949: Jury member for various architectural competitions in Belgium
• 1940: Summoned by the German military court for refusing to cooperate with the occupier
• 1940: Refusal to work as an advisor for reconstruction
• 1944 – 1945: Temporary director of the city drawing academy during the war years
• 1946: Appointed Regional Commissioner of the PLB. after the liberation
• 1948: Awarded the commemorative medal as a veteran (1940 – 1945)
• Executed urban planning projects: Hoogstraten, Vosselaar, Merksplas
• Executed architectural projects: schools in Noorderwijk, Morkhoven, Vlimmeren, Wechelderzande, Olmen, Herentals, Geel, Oud-Turnhout and more
• Restorations of churches: Minderhout, Olen, Geel and more
• Other projects: town hall in Oud-Turnhout, villas, cemetery monuments, the layout of cemeteries and more