Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann as German architect (1831–1911).
Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann was born at Elbląg in 1831. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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.
His best-known building is Wieża ciśnień Na Grobli. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann died in 1911, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Wieża ciśnień Na Grobli
