Charles Ellet, Jr. is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Charles Ellet, Jr. as American civil engineer.
Charles Ellet, Jr. was born at Bucks County in 1810. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
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 military personnel.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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 Ellet, Jr. died in 1862, aged 52. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
