Joseph Poelaert
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Joseph Poelaert (21 March 1817 – 3 November 1879) was a Belgian architect. His most important creation is the Law Courts of Brussels. He also was the architect of the Congress Column and the Sint-Katelijne church and he rebuilt the La Monnaie theatre in Brussels.
The inhabitants of the Marollen quarter, a working-class neighbourhood next to the Law Courts, used to call him the “Skieven Architect” which roughly means ‘the crooked architect’ because he often drove the inhabitants out of their houses with the help of the local police to make room for the construction of the Law Courts.
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