In the history of building, Charles Bassi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Charles Bassi as Italian–Swedish–Finnish architect.
Charles Bassi was born at Turin in 1772. His recorded nationality is Sweden. He trained at Royal Swedish 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.
His work is associated with classicism.
Among his best-known works are Ekenäs Church, Tampere Old Church and Kanta-Loimaa Church. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Sweden shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Charles Bassi died in 1840, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Ekenäs Church
- Notable work: Tampere Old Church
- Notable work: Kanta-Loimaa Church
- Movement: Classicism
- Trained at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
