Elias Holl belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Elias Holl as German architect (1573–1646).
Elias Holl was born at Augsburg in 1573. His recorded nationality is Germany.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect, general contractor and artist.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Elias Holl died in 1646, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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