Franz Ludwig von Cancrin is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Franz Ludwig von Cancrin as German architect and mineralogist (1738-1812).
Franz Ludwig von Cancrin was born at Breidenbach in 1738. His recorded nationality is Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as engineer, mineralogist and architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Franz Ludwig von Cancrin died in 1812, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
