Gasim bey Hajibababeyov belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Gasim bey Hajibababeyov as Azerbaijani architect (1811–1874).
Gasim bey Hajibababeyov was born at Shamakhi in 1811. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire.
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.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Anna.
That the work was built in Russian Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gasim bey Hajibababeyov died in 1874, aged 63. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Anna
.jpg)
