Gaetano Koch is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Gaetano Koch as Italian architect (1849–1910).
Gaetano Koch was born at Rome in 1849. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gaetano Koch died in 1910, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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