Carlo Lodoli practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Carlo Lodoli as Italian architect (1690-1761).
Carlo Lodoli was born at Venice in 1690. His recorded nationality is Republic of Venice.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, mathematician and teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Republic of Venice shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carlo Lodoli died in 1761, aged 71. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
