In Brussels, an Architect’s Copper-Clad House Makes Brutalism Warm

Bruno Vanbesien may be an architect by trade—but he’s also a connoisseur of office design. Back in 2008, he worked for a Swiss website that compiled profiles of architects. In his time there, he wound up visiting more than 100 offices of the best architects in Belgium. It was an education—not just in seeing how these influential designers worked, but where they worked.