In the history of building, Carl Ferdinand Langhans is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Carl Ferdinand Langhans as German architect (1782–1869).
Carl Ferdinand Langhans was born at Wrocław in 1782. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Prussia.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Prussia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carl Ferdinand Langhans died in 1869, aged 87. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
