Renaat Braem

Renaat Braem (29 August 1910 – 31 January 2001) was a leading Belgian architect and urban planner in the latter half of the twentieth century.

[1] Over the next two decades, Braem created many projects, ranging from private buildings to large scale housing complexes in Leuven, Brussels, Deurne and Boom.

In 1968, he wrote Het lelijkste land ter wereld ("The most ugly country in the world"), an essay against the postwar spatial planning of Belgium with an ecological warning as well.

[1] Renaat Braem published his memoirs Het schoonste land ter wereld (The most beautiful country in the world) in 1987.

His private home, built in 1955, and all its contents (archive, library, furniture) was legated to the Flemish Community in 1999.