Friedrich Bürklein is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Friedrich Bürklein as architect (1813–1872).
Friedrich Bürklein was born at Burk in 1813. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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.
His best-known building is Bamberg railway station. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Friedrich Bürklein died in 1872, aged 59. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Bamberg railway station
