Edmund von Trompowsky practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Edmund von Trompowsky as German architect (1851-1919).
Edmund von Trompowsky was born at Riga in 1851. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Riga Technical University.
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 work is associated with eclecticism.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Edmund von Trompowsky died in 1919, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: eclecticism
- Trained at Riga Technical University
