In the history of building, Georg Kuphaldt is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Georg Kuphaldt as German landscape architect and dendrologist (1853-1938).
Georg Kuphaldt was born at Plön in 1853. 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, gardener and pomologist.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Georg Kuphaldt died in 1938, aged 85. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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