Hans von Burghausen is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Hans von Burghausen as German architect.
Hans von Burghausen was born at Burghausen in 1350. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Medieval construction was collective and slow - cathedrals outlasted the men who began them - and the master mason was a craftsman rather than an author.
He is recorded as architect and painter.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Hans von Burghausen died in 1431, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
