Georg Andreas Bull is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Georg Andreas Bull as Norwegian architect (1829–1917).
Georg Andreas Bull was born at Bergen in 1829. His recorded nationality is Norway.
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 and engineer.
Among his best-known works are Kulturkirken Jakob, Davik Church and Christiania Dampkjøkken. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog and Knight of the Order of St. Olav.
That the work was built in Norway shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Georg Andreas Bull died in 1917, aged 88. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Kulturkirken Jakob
- Notable work: Davik Church
- Notable work: Christiania Dampkjøkken
- Notable work: Høle Church
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog
- Knight of the Order of St. Olav
