Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz as Swedish architect (1716-1796).
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz was born in 1716. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Sweden shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz died in 1796, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
