Friedrich Ludwig Persius belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Friedrich Ludwig Persius as German architect (1803-1845).
Friedrich Ludwig Persius was born at Potsdam in 1803. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Prussia. He trained at gymnasium and Bauakademie.
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.
Among his best-known works are Church of the Redeemer and Villa Schöningen. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Prussia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Friedrich Ludwig Persius died in 1845, 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: Church of the Redeemer
- Notable work: Villa Schöningen
- Trained at gymnasium and Bauakademie
