Christian Fürst practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Christian Fürst as Norwegian architect.
Christian Fürst was born at Christiania in 1860. His recorded nationality is Norway. He trained at Technische Universität Berlin.
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.
His best-known building is Sagene Church. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Norway shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Christian Fürst died in 1910, aged 50. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Sagene Church
- Trained at Technische Universität Berlin
