Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander as Swedish architect and painter (1816-1881).
Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander was born at Maria Magdalena parish in 1816. His recorded nationality is Sweden. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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, painter and writer.
His best-known building is Stockholm Synagogue. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Litteris et Artibus.
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 Wilhelm Scholander died in 1881, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Stockholm Synagogue
- Litteris et Artibus
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris
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