Carl Otto Hager practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Carl Otto Hager as German architect (1813–1898).
Carl Otto Hager was born at Dresden in 1813. His recorded nationality is German Empire.
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.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in German Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carl Otto Hager died in 1898, aged 85. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
