Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell as German architect (1750-1823).
Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell was born at Weilburg in 1750. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Bavaria.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, landscape architect and urban planner.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Bavaria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell died in 1823, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
