Adolf Schirmer is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Adolf Schirmer as Norwegian architect (1850–1930).
Adolf Schirmer was born at Christiania in 1850. His recorded nationality is Norway.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Order of St. Olav and Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
That the work was built in Norway shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Adolf Schirmer died in 1930, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Knight of the Order of St. Olav
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog
