In the history of building, Giovan Battista Filippo Basile is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giovan Battista Filippo Basile as Italian architect (1825-1891).
Giovan Battista Filippo Basile was born at Palermo in 1825. 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 and university teacher.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Giovan Battista Filippo Basile died in 1891, aged 66. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
