Giovanni Battista Meduna belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Giovanni Battista Meduna as Italian architect.
Giovanni Battista Meduna was born at Venice in 1800. 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.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Giovanni Battista Meduna died in 1880, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
