In the history of building, Christian Friedrich von Leins is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Christian Friedrich von Leins as German architect (1814-1892).
Christian Friedrich von Leins was born at Stuttgart in 1814. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Württemberg. He trained at Friedrich-Eugens-Gymnasium Stuttgart.
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 university teacher.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Württemberg shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Christian Friedrich von Leins died in 1892, aged 78. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Friedrich-Eugens-Gymnasium Stuttgart
