Fredrik Olaus Lindström practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Fredrik Olaus Lindström as Swedish architect (1847–1919).
Fredrik Olaus Lindström was born at Stockholm in 1847. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
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 city architect.
Among his best-known works are Umeå rådhus and Umeå City Church. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Sweden shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Fredrik Olaus Lindström died in 1919, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Umeå rådhus
- Notable work: Umeå City Church
