In the history of building, Fritz Schumacher is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Fritz Schumacher as German architect and urban designer (1869–1947).
Fritz Schumacher was born at Bremen in 1869. 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, university teacher and exlibrist.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
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.
Fritz Schumacher died in 1947, aged 78. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Goethe Medal for Art and Science
