Friedrich von Thiersch belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Friedrich von Thiersch as German architect (1852-1921).
Friedrich von Thiersch was born at Marburg in 1852. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Stuttgart.
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 art historian.
Among his best-known works are Justizpalast, Festhalle Frankfurt and Maximilian Bridge. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and honorary doctor of the Vienna Technical University.
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 von Thiersch died in 1921, 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: Justizpalast
- Notable work: Festhalle Frankfurt
- Notable work: Maximilian Bridge
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- honorary doctor of the Vienna Technical University
- Trained at University of Stuttgart
