In the history of building, August Sicard von Sicardsburg is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists August Sicard von Sicardsburg as Austrian architect (1813-1868).
August Sicard von Sicardsburg was born at Buda in 1813. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at TU Wien and Stiftsgymnasium Melk.
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, professor and teacher.
His best-known building is Vienna State Opera house. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Austria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
August Sicard von Sicardsburg died in 1868, aged 55. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Vienna State Opera house
- Trained at TU Wien and Stiftsgymnasium Melk
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