Charles Augustus Hartley practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Charles Augustus Hartley as British civil engineer (1825–1915).
Charles Augustus Hartley was born at Heworth in 1825. 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 civil engineer and engineer.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Albert Medal.
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.
Charles Augustus Hartley died in 1915, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Albert Medal
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