In the history of building, Edoardo Arborio Mella is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Edoardo Arborio Mella as Italian architect (1808-1884).
Edoardo Arborio Mella was born at Vercelli in 1808. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
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 photographer.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Edoardo Arborio Mella died in 1884, aged 76. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
