In the history of building, Charles Conrad Schneider is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Charles Conrad Schneider as United States civil engineer (1843–1916).
Charles Conrad Schneider was born at Apolda in 1843. His recorded nationality is United States.
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, engineer and design engineer.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Charles Conrad Schneider died in 1916, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
