In the history of building, Gottlieb Schumacher is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Gottlieb Schumacher as German-American civil engineer, architect, and archaeologist (1857–1925).
Gottlieb Schumacher was born at Zanesville in 1857. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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 anthropologist, archaeologist and architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gottlieb Schumacher died in 1925, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
