In the history of building, Francis Fowke is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Francis Fowke as British engineer and architect (1823–1865).
Francis Fowke was born at Oldpark in 1823. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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 engineer.
His best-known building is Victoria and Albert Museum. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Francis Fowke died in 1865, aged 42. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Victoria and Albert Museum
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