Edmund Kiss is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Edmund Kiss as German writer, architect and pseudoarchaeologist (1886–1960).
Edmund Kiss was born at German Empire in 1886. His recorded nationality is German Empire.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as anthropologist, archaeologist and writer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in German Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Edmund Kiss died in 1960, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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