Balthazar Lange belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Balthazar Lange as Norwegian architect (1854-1937).
Balthazar Lange was born at Asker in 1854. His recorded nationality is Norway. He trained at Leibniz University Hannover.
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.
Among his best-known works are Uranienborg Church and Porsgrunn station. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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.
Balthazar Lange died in 1937, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Uranienborg Church
- Notable work: Porsgrunn station
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Trained at Leibniz University Hannover
