Friedrich Ohmann belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Friedrich Ohmann as Austrian architect and university educator (1858-1927).
Friedrich Ohmann was born at Lviv in 1858. His recorded nationality is Austria.
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, university teacher and urban planner.
His best-known building is Burggarten. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Austria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Friedrich Ohmann died in 1927, aged 69. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Burggarten
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