Caspar Purdon Clarke belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Caspar Purdon Clarke as English architect.
Caspar Purdon Clarke was born at Ireland in 1846. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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 and art historian.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire and Knight Bachelor.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Caspar Purdon Clarke died in 1911, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire
- Knight Bachelor
