David t'Kindt

David 't Kindt (12 January 1699 – 15 July 1770) was a Flemish architect who practised in Ghent and worked in the Rococo style. He is recognised as "the central figure of Ghent Rococo".

Biography

He was born in 1699 in Ghent (then in the Austrian Netherlands), where he joined the Carpenters' Guild in 1726, and continued to practise, being appointed municipal director of works for the city in 1755. At the end of his life, he served as the first director of the Académie Royale de Peinture, Dessin, Sculpture et Architecture. Mammelokker (1741 ), a small prison built on to the existing Gothic Cloth Hall Theatre on Vrijdagmarkt (1744) Hotel Oombergen (1746), originally built as a family house, now seat of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letterkunde) Hôtel Damman (1745) Hôtel van Goethem (1745) Hôtel Snoeck (1749) Hôtel Falligan (1755) Town Hall, Lokeren Hotel de Coninck