In the history of building, Hans Jacob Sparre is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Hans Jacob Sparre as architect (1861–1937).
Hans Jacob Sparre was born at Nore Municipality in 1861. His recorded nationality is Norway.
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 Norway shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Hans Jacob Sparre died in 1937, aged 76. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
