August Schwendenwein von Lanauberg is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists August Schwendenwein von Lanauberg as Austrian architect (1817–1885).
August Schwendenwein von Lanauberg was born at Vienna in 1817.
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.
August Schwendenwein von Lanauberg died in 1885, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
