In the history of building, Gerhard von Tiesenhausen is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Gerhard von Tiesenhausen as Baltic German architect (1878-1917).
Gerhard von Tiesenhausen was born at Tartu in 1878. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire. He trained at Riga Technical University.
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.
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.
Gerhard von Tiesenhausen died in 1917, aged 39. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Riga Technical University
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