Caspar Frederik Harsdorff practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Caspar Frederik Harsdorff as Danish architect (1735-1799).
Caspar Frederik Harsdorff was born at Copenhagen in 1735. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Denmark. He trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Denmark shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Caspar Frederik Harsdorff died in 1799, aged 64. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
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